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Title: You Should Still Learn To Code, Says GitHub CEO

Link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/1...

You should still learn to code, says GitHub's CEO. And you should start as
soon as possible. From a report: "I strongly believe that every kid, every
child, should learn coding," Thomas Dohmke said in a recent podcast interview
with EO. "We should actually teach them coding in school, in the same way
that we teach them physics and geography and literacy and math and what-not."
Coding, he added, is one such fundamental skill -- and the only reason it's
not part of the curriculum is because it took "us too long to actually
realize that." Dohmke, who's been a programmer since the 90s, said he's never
seen "anything more exciting" than the current moment in engineering -- the
advent of AI, he believes, has made the field that much easier to break into,
and is poised to make software more ubiquitous than ever. "It's so much
easier to get into software development. You can just write a prompt into
Copilot or ChatGPT or similar tools, and it will likely write you a basic
webpage, or a small application, a game in Python," Dohmke said. "And so, AI
makes software development so much more accessible for anyone who wants to
learn coding." AI, Dohmke said, helps to "realize the dream" of bringing an
idea to life, meaning that fewer projects will end up dead in the water, and
smaller teams of developers will be enabled to tackle larger-scale projects.
Dohmke said he believes it makes the overall process of creation more
efficient. "You see some of the early signs of that, where very small
startups -- sometimes five developers and some of them actually only one
developer -- believe they can become million, if not billion dollar
businesses by leveraging all the AI agents that are available to them," he
added.

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