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I wonder if ten years from now, the ability to type code character-by-character on a physical keyboard without the help of an LLM could be considered a survival skill.

Like treading water, starting a fire or knowing the Heimlich maneuver.

I saw a guy coding today.
No cursor.
No windsurf. 
No chatgpt.
He just sat there. Typing code manually.  
Like a psychopath.

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I wonder if ten years from now, the ability to type code character-by-character on a physical keyboard without the help of an LLM could be considered a survival skill.

Like treading water, starting a fire or knowing the Heimlich maneuver.

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I feel like this is true for pure Node JavaScript.

I don't think a single dev even remembers what the prototype chain or the event loop even is anymore.

All they know how to do is regurgitate Typescript without bothering to use the type system and lie.

Well I guess as someone who coded a decade ago it doesn't look or feel anything like the way we do it today. The language levels are so high and many footguns have been abstracted away by library on top of library.

One of the clearest examples at least in javascript land is how we now have a modern type system, but no one really uses it in the way a Haskell developer would do to *prove* their systems work. They just run the type checker to make sure their program runs, then are shocked when the program fails at run time. We have a strongly typed system now, but no one even bothers to use it and I don't think anyone even studies how to use it.

I don't think most developers understand the underlying computer science of the systems they use anymore. Back 10 years ago, you didn't have decent internet documentation so you were forced to learn these things.

Not knocking what you're saying about typing btw. The key point is coding is already so abstracted this basically happened. Now AI is coming around and can likely stich libraries together better than any human.

People already don't know how to code I guess is what I'm saying. No one is "coding", they're just gluing libraries together.

I’m not even talking about a particular programming language. Just knowing how to type code on a keyboard coherently.

Computing is not going to look or feel anything like the way we know it today a decade from now.