You no longer need to feel guilty for not knowing Rust or Go if you're a C++ or Python guru. No need to nag yourself about learning VHDL if you're a Verilog dev. No need to worry about C# if you're a Java person. No need to sweat makefiles if you're a CMake fan.
We will see continuing progress in programming languages, certainly, but that progress will be aimed at making them more accessible to AI, not to humans.
- You don’t need to learn types, the model knows what you meant.
- You don’t need to learn security, just ask the LLM to make it secure.
- You don’t need to learn performance, you can always scale later.
My (half-joking) attitude was always, "Performance? That sounds like Intel's job, not mine. My code magically gets faster if I do nothing at all, so I'll focus on new stuff instead."
That didn't scale very well at all, as it turned out.