Dev Log #2 - Should you still study coding in 2024?

Did you see the Crowdstrike fiasco? Were you affected by it at all?

Half of the world was down. Hospitals, airports, delivery services, supermarkets...

So in such a digital world, do you think we'll need more people to maintain and build this digital infrastructure or less?

But what about ChatGPT? What about AI?

Did we stop eating potatoes because we invented tractors?

Are you going to stop doing online check-in when you travel or are you going to stop using self-service checkout?

Probably not.

Same goes with coding - we're not going to stop creating new digital tools or apps.

And yes, the tech market seems to have cooled down quite a bit around the world. But so has the entire world economy after covid so...

TL;DR someone will have to maintain all the existing digital infrastructure and someone has to build all the new cool digital tools we'll want in the future.

Do you want to work on building them or getting automated by them?

If AI can code as well as a human by the way, we've got bigger problems to worry about than jobs anyway.

If you do become a developer, may you become good enough that your code leaves no legacy (only real devs will get this one).

^ kudos to the recruiter that came up with that one.

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