DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored, QwQ-32B Puts Reasoning in Smaller Model, and more…
March 18, 2025
Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct […] than that it will become all-powerful. More and more, computers will program themselves.” Statements discouraging people from learning to code are harmful!
Source: DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored, QwQ-32B Puts Reasoning in Smaller Model, and more…
Perhaps it’s ‘cope’, a whistling past the graveyard, as someone who has invested a significant majority of his professional life into writing code, but I share Andrew Chen’s intuition around this. Perhaps software engineering and development won’t look like it does today–IDEs and C-like syntax, but as Chen observes (as did Bret Taylor recently), we don’t punch holes in cards anymore.
I haven’t written anything that is remotely close to assembly code, let alone machine language for 40 years, but the understanding I developed about how CPUs basically work by doing so has stood me in good stead in the decades since. As will learning to code now for an entirely new generation of software developers.
