re: Software guys of the OT. Questions about coding/getting started.

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As for the AI thing, it's really just yet another example of "trying to make programming easy or fast." Those efforts have largely failed... COBOL and SQL were intended to be more human-friendly, but they're really not.

If the future of programming is "writing prompts for AI to write the code from," I can assure you that writing those prompts will be exacting, difficult, error-prone, and time-consuming. It's still programming. It's not like you can just tell AI, "uh, yeah, make me an e-commerce site kind of like, Uber for taxidermy, and make it compliant with PCI and Sarbanes-Oxley and stuff." You'll be authoring very precise instructions using a subset of the English language, and that is not that different from the original (failed) vision people had for COBOL, SQL, and Visual Basic.

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Yeah if humans are writing the specs then AI is just another tool to get you close, just like googling code snippets.

I think on balance AI will create *more* programming jobs, particularly security related. When AIs start trying to execute code they've written themselves, somebody has to audit that.