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I’d love not to have to be great at programming, as much as I enjoy not being great at cleaning the canalization. But I get what you mean, we do lose some potentially valuable skills if we outsource them too often for too long.


It’s probably roughly as problematic as most people not being able to fix even simple problems with their cars themselves these days (i.e., not very).


Everyone needs to have AI to do some minor modification in Excel file?


Of course not. Who is arguing for that?


Give it time. They will, eventually.




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