Programming Is Not a Skill
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The essay argues that programming has stopped being a skill in the narrow sense of hand-writing code, and that each automation wave, from FORTRAN and COBOL through low-code tools and now LLMs, has pushed the human role toward judgment, specification, and verification, which are harder to automate.