As AI advances, vibe coding is becoming ever more popular. There may come a point when much of “computer science” will consist of giving high level directives to an AI, rather than actual programming as we think of it today.<\/p>\n
But I like programming. It’s fun, it’s challenging, it keeps my mind sharp, and it gives me an enormous sense of satisfaction.<\/p>\n
Will programming one day go the way of the switchboard operator or milkman? Or will we still keep on programming after it is no longer necessary?<\/p>\n
I am encouraged by the fact that photography did not kill painting, and movies did not kill live theater. People will generally continue to do things that give them satisfaction, because that’s what we humans do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As AI advances, vibe coding is becoming ever more popular. There may come a point when much of “computer science” will consist of giving high level directives to an AI, rather than actual programming as we think of it today. But I like programming. It’s fun, it’s challenging, it keeps my mind sharp, and it … Continue reading “Programming after AI”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28332,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331\/revisions\/28332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}