Systems, design patterns, technical experience, and just what good looks like. You need to know how the sausage is made, because you can't get the best results from an AI model without knowing when the result is good.

And that's actually really hard without experience, community, and ongoing criticism and learning.

Hey thanks for replying! It's a great question, and one I don't have a good answer for.

My immediate gut instinct is that we SHOULD still be teaching kids coding, and everything else that was on their curriculum previously. Just as calculators helped us work faster, we still want to understand what they're doing. Even if AI can augment or replace some of our knowledge in future, it's still important to think for yourself and be able to vet what you're generating with AI. But this is an answer built around what's happening right now, not tomorrow.

When I think about an answer in relation to my experience over the last year, it feels a lot more hopeless, at least to me. I don't think we're going to know what adults should be focusing on in the short term, let alone what kids are learning for their future careers.

The situation is changing so rapidly in my workplace (at least for software engineers) that AI workflows we were using 3 months ago feel ancient. By not being on the latest frontier model, we're losing productivity. We're all rolling our own custom software to speed up our personal workflows. It's faster and cheaper to do this in many cases than to buy an off-the-shelf product and learn/master it.

So already, I feel like the days of companies selling software subscriptions feels very numbered. Adobe and Atlassian are going to have their business model completely destroyed IMHO. But that's not even the scary part.

Have a look at the number of Linux CVEs found this year compared to previous years - it's humbling. Governments are paying very close attention, and export controls on AI models are in full swing. They're very capable cyberweapons.

So the future I'm seeing is an incredibly uncertain one for everyone due to the exponential nature of it all, both from a geopolitics standpoint as well as a career standpoint for many industries. Last year I thought we were somewhere through the hype cycle and it was starting to slow down, but now I've had more hands on experience with the frontier models, these days I'm thinking we're still at the beginning of an exponential curve, an explosion of change that's going to happen so fast many of us will struggle to cope, and our slow legal and economic systems will struggle to keep up.

I think a lot of people are just assuming it'll all blow over once the bubble pops, but like all the other bubbles, it's formed because there is a very real technological leap happening, and it's not going away.

So right now I've never been more sure of one thing: that it's harder than ever to see what's coming. So to try and answer your question just feels impossible, it's all still moving too fast.

Perhaps on reflection one thing we should be teaching our kids is the importance of continued learning and bettering ones self. I fear the world is in for a rough decade from all this (not to mention climate change and late-stage capitalism), and anything we can do to prepare our kids to roll with the punches in that future would be wise.