Coding Used to Be Amazing
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Coding once occupied a rare sweet spot — accessible enough to learn but hard enough to be highly valued. The 2010s bootcamp era proved that with effort, career changers could break into well-paying engineering roles. Now, AI-powered natural language coding has made software development remarkably cheap and easy, which is impressive but also quietly diminishes what made the craft feel special and worth mastering.
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