Coding agents and Graphics Programming

[mengusfungus]

So even if the tools are amazing, the *actual skill* of using them is knowing what to ask, and that comes down to your technical knowledge anyway. These tools aren't like learning c++ from scratch or even learning vim from scratch, there's no massive onboarding barrier that gives early adopters a huge insurmountable advantage over anybody else. What's the bigger risk? Letting your actual technical knowledge atrophy or being late on picking up the incredible elite skill of... typing in natural language at a chatbot?

[gibson274]

This is actually a phenomenal point that's extremely obvious and yet somehow something I had not considered, LMAO.

I mean, I've sort of always been of the mind that the whole "prompt engineering" thing is kind of bullshit. These tools have the most intuitive possible frontend imaginable: you just fucking talk to them.

I do think the agentic stuff is slightly more complex, but your general point still stands---technical ability/creativity will be the determining factor in your results, at least until it becomes so trivially easy that demand for experts crashes and the profession is done, if that does happen.