Been grinding away at memory usage in @ladybirdbrowser over the last two weeks. Making some good progress! Here's how we do on my X profile page 1 month ago vs today:

Your position is reasonable, but wrong. Having learned to code is still valuable in the new world of AI, not because you're wrong about coding itself having become disposable, but because of the capabilities and mindset you developed while learning to code, some of which are difficult to learn in any other way. You didn't become a professional programmer. But I'm willing to bet that your intuition about how to design software is far better because you wrestled with code. And that is *not* a skill that LLMs are replacing - ignore the noisy hype about this. I'm also willing to bet that some of what you learned as a programmer in training translated into problem-decomposition skills that have served you well as an economist. If one is not a complete dullard (and you are certainly not a complete dullard) learning to code teaches not just craft skills but a mindset - a set of heuristics for carving reality at its joints. There are other ways to get this - I think for example of Richard Feynman who got there by thinking very hard about physics. And it is not guaranteed that every programmer will develop this right mindset. But many of us do. And most of the other ways to develop it seem also to produce it only as a side effect, but less reliably than learning to code does. So don't write off learning to code. Maybe someday we'll develop educational methods that can teach those higher-level skills more directly. That would be an excellent thing, if it's possible. But until it gets here, learning to code will still have value that is not easy to duplicate in any other way.

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