Coding was not the problem, I agree with that. But translating vision into software was, is and will be.
It's figuring out what the product actually needs to do, making tradeoffs between competing priorities, understanding edge cases that nobody thought about, coordinating across teams, reviewing whether the solution is actually correct, and maintaining it over years.
I have yet to see AI accomplish this. It's a force multiplier but I'll wait till the end of this year to see if I'm wrong.
Elon Musk thinks coding dies this year.
Not evolves. Dies.
By December, AI wonβt need programming languages. It generates machine code directly. Binary optimized beyond anything human logic could produce. No translation. No compilation. Just pure execution.
Musk: βYou donβt even bother doing coding.β
Code was never the point. It was friction. A tax we paid because machines didnβt speak human. AI just learned fluent human. The tax is gone.
Now plug that into Neuralink. No syntax. No keyboard. No screen.
Musk: βImagination-to-software.β
Thought becomes executable. You imagine an outcome, the system architects and compiles it into reality instantly.
Weβre not automating programming. Weβre erasing it from existence.
The entire profession collapses into a thought. Decades of training reduced to irrelevance. The gap between idea and instantiation hits zero.
You donβt build anymore. You imagine, and it materializes.
Not incremental progress. Total phase shift. The way humans have created things for ten thousand years just became obsolete.
Welcome to a world where the limiting factor isnβt skill, resources, or time. Itβs whether you can picture what you want clearly enough for a machine to birth it into existence.