Hello Future: Coding is Dead. Long Live Engineering!
The blindingly rapid advance of Generative AI, mass technology layoffs, every other update on artificial intelligence signals the end of an era. The information age had its time, the experience age has barely made a blip, this is the age of AI. Coding, as we knew it, is dead — long live engineering!
Let me explain:
I began coding from around the age of 8 or 9 on a Commodore 64. It was an exciting time — there were only four channels on the television, so seeing the things this machine could do were mind-blowing!
My brother and I tried, and failed, to copy the code listing from the back of a manual or magazine *my memory escapes which*. Frankly, we had zero idea what we were doing. We were simply blindly copying words and numbers onto the screen without understanding — pages upon pages of code listings, in the hope that the program would run. It didn’t. We clearly got something wrong because we were met with errors that similarly meant absolutely nothing to us. It was disappointing. However, that ‘failure’ wasn’t the end of something — it was the beginning.
