{"id":36149,"date":"2025-03-16T06:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T06:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/you-dont-need-code-to-be-a-programmer-but-you-do-need-expertise-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T06:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T06:49:58","slug":"you-dont-need-code-to-be-a-programmer-but-you-do-need-expertise-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/you-dont-need-code-to-be-a-programmer-but-you-do-need-expertise-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t need code to be a programmer. But you do need expertise | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids\u2019 school lunches. But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s taking over<\/p>\n<p>Way back in 2023, Andrej Karpathy, an eminent AI guru, made waves with a striking claim that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/karpathy\/status\/1617979122625712128\">the hottest new programming language is English<\/a>\u201d. This was because the advent of large language models (LLMs) meant that from now on humans would not have to learn arcane programming languages in order to tell computers what to do. Henceforth, they could speak to machines like the Duke of Devonshire spoke to his gardener, and the machines would do their bidding.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since LLMs emerged, programmers have been early adopters, using them as unpaid assistants (or \u201cco-pilots\u201d) and finding them useful up to a point \u2013 but always with the proviso that, like interns, they make mistakes, and you need to have real programming expertise to spot those.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/16\/ai-software-coding-programmer-expertise-jobs-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids\u2019 school lunches. But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s taking over Way back in 2023, Andrej Karpathy, an eminent AI guru, made waves with a striking claim that \u201cthe hottest new programming language is English\u201d. This was because the advent of &#8230; <a title=\"You don&#8217;t need code to be a programmer. But you do need expertise | John Naughton\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/you-dont-need-code-to-be-a-programmer-but-you-do-need-expertise-john-naughton\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about You don&#8217;t need code to be a programmer. But you do need expertise | John Naughton\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}