I wonder how much of this applies to coding. Is coding thinking?

I've been involved with Kite, and I think back on the "learnings". With the recent development of LLMs, I'm astounded how dated the conversation seem now.

I think of programming languages as an interface between humans and computers. If anything, the industry expanded because of this abstraction. Not everyone has to learn assembly to build cool shit. To me AI is the next step in this abstraction where you don't need to learn programming languages to potentially build cool projects. The hard part of software engineering is scale anyways. My bet is that this will expand the industry in unprecedented ways. Will there be contraction of traditional programming jobs? Absolutely. The growth in tech jobs over the last 20 years weren't more assembly programmers. They were abstraction experts. I'm sure the next wave will be even bigger, professional prompting will explode in size.

are we not going to put a black bar on HN for her?

Steve Jobs was a product manager, the best in class.