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Coding will become as rare as fine art in the AI future

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“You writing code is going to be the equivalent of like you write you fine printing, like, on a on a canvas and people would, oh my god.”

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You writing code is going to be the equivalent of like you write you fine printing, like, on a on a canvas and people would, oh my god. You wrote that code? That's so amazing. It's gonna be so rare that it's gonna become an art. Right? It's not gonna be it's gonna be commoditized completely. Like, it it already is in a sense. Most elite VibeCoders rely on AI. Again, it's an amplifier. Right? So I think, everybody becomes an engineer in in the in the world of the future. A designer, a PM, everybody is a forward deployed engineer or an AI assistant engineer or an LLM engineer or a VibeConner.

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Lazar Jovanovic argues that writing code by hand will become so rare it transforms into an art form, similar to fine painting today. He predicts that AI will completely commoditize coding, making everyone a type of engineer who relies on AI assistants. The future belongs to 'VibeCoders' who amplify their abilities through AI rather than writing code manually.

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This clip presents a bold prediction about how AI will fundamentally transform the nature of programming work and make traditional coding skills obsolete.

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