Don’t learn to code: Nvidia’s founder Jensen Huang advises a different career path::Don’t learn to code advises Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Thanks to AI everybody will soon become a capable programmer simply using human language.
Don’t learn to code: Nvidia’s founder Jensen Huang advises a different career path::Don’t learn to code advises Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Thanks to AI everybody will soon become a capable programmer simply using human language.
I don’t think he’s seen the absolute fucking drivel that most developers have been given as software specs before now.
Most people don’t even know what they want, let alone be able to describe it. I’ve often been given a mountain of stuff, only to go back and forth with the customer to figure out what problem they’re actually trying to solve, and then do it in like 3 lines of code in a way that doesn’t break everything else, or tie a maintenance albatross around my neck for the next ten years.
Yesterday, I had to deal with a client that literally contradicted himself 3 times in 20 minutes, about whether a specific Date field should be obligatory or not. My boss and a colleague who were nearby started laughing once the client went away, partly because I was visibly annoyed at the indecision.