Don’t learn to code: Nvidia’s founder Jensen Huang advises a different career path::Don’t learn to code advises Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Thanks to AI everybody will soon become a capable programmer simply using human language.

  • fidodo@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    As a developer building on top of LLMs, my advice is to learn programming architecture. There’s a shit ton of work that needs to be done to get this unpredictable non deterministic tech to work safely and accurately. This is like saying get out of tech right before the Internet boom. The hardest part of programming isn’t writing low level functions, it’s architecting complex systems while keeping them robust, maintainable, and expandable. By the time an AI can do that, all office jobs are obsolete. AIs will be able to replace CEOs before they can replace system architects. Programmers won’t go away, they’ll just have less busywork to do and instead need to work at a higher level, but the complexity of those higher level requirements are about to explode and we will need LLMs to do the simpler tasks with our oversight to make sure it gets integrated correctly.

    I also recommend still learning the fundamentals, just maybe not as deeply as you needed to. Knowing how things work under the hood still helps immensely with debugging and creating better more efficient architectures even at a high level.

    I will say, I do know developers that specialized in algorithms who are feeling pretty lost right now, but they’re perfectly capable of adapting their skills to the new paradigm, their issue is more of a personal issue of deciding what they want to do since they were passionate about algorithms.

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      8 months ago

      In my comment elsewhere in the thread I talk about how, as a complete software noob, I like to design programs by making a flowchart first, and how I wish the flowchart itself was the code.

      It sounds like what I’m doing might be (super basic) programming architecture? Where can I go to learn more about this?

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        8 months ago

        Look up visual programming languages. When you apply a visual metaphor to programming it really is basically just really detailed and complex flow charts.