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I like this take by @kentbeck.com on how AI-assisted programming changes the balance of which skills are most important From this interview with @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-age...

Do you think the way we teach programming should change somehow?

I saw a news headline that said "learn to code" is now worse advice than "get a face tattoo." Even if knowing the minutia of code is being commoditized, you still need the intuition behind algorithmic complexity, bottlenecks, easy vs hard problems, etc. That's all still worth learning.

I'd like to see significantly more focus on architecture in software pedagogy, as that's where we still obviously shine. And maybe some more precise low level stuff, as that's "hidden knowledge" we don't want to die with the rise of vibe coding. Middle tier stuff is less relevant imo

A big part of modern software architecture patterns exists to facilitate code maintainability for humans. Will machines develop their own patterns? I suspect machine friendly arch will look nothing like what we find “elegant”