Sacrificing the golden calf of “coding”
summary
Argues that most routine coding will be done by machines within five years, cites Alibaba and Microsoft AIs beating humans on the Stanford reading‑comprehension test, and shows a working automated page-generator button that turns a database dump into a site in an hour. Points to concrete tooling—Docker, webpack, Visual Studio Code, NPM, linting—and production examples like Airbnb sketch-to-HTML and the AutoDraw/QuickDraw training pipeline to demonstrate feasibility and impact.
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chapters (70)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:42Digital heresy
- 1:31Most coding will be done by machines
- 2:34Machine learning and AI
- 3:30Let robots kill
- 4:04People are worried about automation
- 5:18Everyone must learn how to code
- 5:49We are not exempt
- 6:10Lets rewind
- 6:32The demo scene
- 7:02Programming in a creative fashion
- 7:43Coding vs maintainability
- 8:10Becoming a programmer
- 8:50Performance
- 9:49Environments
- 10:37People didnt trust us
- 11:09Browser X
- 11:57What if
- 12:33NPM
- 12:51Generic Code
- 13:29Older Browsers
- 13:43Should you
- 14:41Dont repeat yourself
- 14:58Class a thing
- 16:25Browser wars
- 16:57First company
- 17:22Access databases
- 17:42Script access
- 18:11Give me an hour
- 18:21Automating things
- 18:59Professional development
- 19:14Assumptions
- 19:49Reusing
- 21:35Paks
- 21:53Everything counts
- 22:31The perfect solution
- 23:11Computing is ubiquitous
- 25:04Prebuilt components
- 25:15SDKs
- 25:58Components
- 27:18Problems
- 27:39Complex
- 28:00Frameworks
- 29:11Writing terrible code
- 29:51Interview question
- 30:11JavaScript
- 30:53MathMax
- 32:10Humans rely heavily on technology
- 32:53Its not about code quality
- 34:00Its easier nowadays
- 34:25We need to establish rules
- 34:41We are not code warriors
- 35:01We are becoming engineers
- 35:21Building societies
- 36:02Philip Pullman quote
- 36:50What you create not how you do it
- 37:26Coding is much more fun
- 38:08Code while you write the code
- 39:40collaborative editing
- 40:14what people do
- 41:01Solarwell
- 41:26Unit tests
- 42:28Bootstrap
- 43:06Autodraw
- 43:25Quickdraw
- 43:46Airbnb
- 44:34Automate
- 44:54Humans are better
- 45:06People problems
- 45:27Find the fun
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