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  • Anna Libertyliberty@mathstodon.xyz
    Nov 10, 2026, 7:45 PM

    @aparrish I think we could do a lot to:

    1) Make programming feel more accessible and less hostile
    2) Make it actually more accessible (through simpler languages, better documentation, higher-level abstractions, nicer interfaces)
    3) Educate people to increase their skill

    Simultaneously lower the floor, extend a ladder, and encourage people to increase their confidence.

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  • Anna Libertyliberty@mathstodon.xyz
    Nov 10, 2026, 7:48 PM

    @aparrish As far as job security goes, more people should learn to program and more programmers can learn to do more complex things.

    Programmers can move from being expected to run and maintain the car to designing and innovating new techniques and paradigms.

    This also applies to LLMs since they can only (badly) maintain the car but don't have the capacity for this level of expertise. They can glue but can't engineer.

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