You are now! It's the act of solving the problem not the code itself that entirely matters. Code is simply an unfortunate vehicle to do so. I've been programming for almost 20 years now, 10 professionally and I love it. I also maintain that for a lot of the programming that makes the world go round, it's not that hard. People just convince themselves they won't be able to.
LLMs have supercharged me as an experienced dev, not writing code[0], but rubber ducking[1] with something that talks back and I can ask my question in an infinite amount of stupid ways and it won't balk.
If it can do that for me, designing a database, it's about to introduce a whole new wider range of "I'm not a programmer"s into being programmers. Good timing too, the world needs it.
I know particularly prickly devs will be annoyed by people they see as not true developers, but, and sorry to be so blunt, fuck em. It's short sighted because if you're as deep and skilled as you think you are, you won't intersect with this new wave of programmers anyway.
[0] I stopped using copilot, it got in my way too frequently even after initially liking it.
[1] I use GPT4 and I intend to publish my entire history of my back and forths I've had with it for designing a database after I release my project, but it basically just let's me bounce ideas off it. The caveat is this area is not unfamiliar to me, and the techniques I'm discussing I know enough about to call bullshit on when I see it.
LLMs have supercharged me as an experienced dev, not writing code[0], but rubber ducking[1] with something that talks back and I can ask my question in an infinite amount of stupid ways and it won't balk.
If it can do that for me, designing a database, it's about to introduce a whole new wider range of "I'm not a programmer"s into being programmers. Good timing too, the world needs it.
I know particularly prickly devs will be annoyed by people they see as not true developers, but, and sorry to be so blunt, fuck em. It's short sighted because if you're as deep and skilled as you think you are, you won't intersect with this new wave of programmers anyway.
[0] I stopped using copilot, it got in my way too frequently even after initially liking it. [1] I use GPT4 and I intend to publish my entire history of my back and forths I've had with it for designing a database after I release my project, but it basically just let's me bounce ideas off it. The caveat is this area is not unfamiliar to me, and the techniques I'm discussing I know enough about to call bullshit on when I see it.