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>>tablet+(OP)
I like Thomas, but I find his arguments include the same fundamental mistake I see made elsewhere. He acknowledged that the tools need an expert to use properly, and as he illustrated, he refined his expertise over many years. He is of the first and last generation of experienced programmers who learned without LLM assistance. How is someone just coming out of school going to get the encouragement and space to independently develop the experience they need to break out of the "vibe coding" phase? I can almost anticipate an interjection along the lines of "well we used to build everything with our hands and now we have tools etc, it's just different" but this is an order of magnitude different. This is asking a robot to design and assemble a shed for you, and you never even see the saw, nails, and hammer being used, let alone understand enough about how the different materials interact to get much more than a "vibe" for how much weight the roof might support.

>>parado+4u
I'm hearing this fear more frequently, but I do not understand it. Curriculum will adapt. We are a curious and intelligent species. There will be more laypeople building things that used to require deep expertise. A lot of those things will be garbage. Specialists will remain valuable and in demand. The kids will still learn to write loops, use variables, about OOP and functional programming, how to write "hello world," to add styles, to accept input, etc. And they'll probably ask a model for help when they get stuck, and the teacher won't let them use that during a test. The models will be used in many ways, and for many things, but not all things; it will be normal and fine. Developing will be more productive and more fun, with less toil.