One interesting shift over the past couple of years is that discussions about AI increasingly sound less like discussions about software companies and more like discussions about national infrastructure.
Whether that’s ultimately good or bad, it feels like a meaningful change from where the industry was even three years ago.
Even with coding agents, I think beginners still benefit from learning enough to understand system behavior, debugging, and tradeoffs. In our experience, AI accelerates implementation, but understanding why something breaks remains extremely valuable.
But I'll say in 5 years most coding work would be done by agents.