“Coding, or the translation of a precise design into software instructions, is dead,” Balazinska said told GeekWire via email. “AI can do that. We have never graduated coders.

This has particularly affected the market for software jobs. "So software coding and programming, you can really see how AI has made that much more efficient," Prising said.

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