I wonder if LLMs can help boost the importance of "code literacy" over just learning to program
Learning to program has previously been dominated memorizing vast amounts of trivia - for loops, variable type syntax, that kind of thing
But when LLMs can handle that trivia for you, what's more important is being able to think in terms of which programs can be solved by code, and how that code should be designed and tested and implemented
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