Yea, he says multiple times that he's not a good coder but that his friend is even worse. However, his worse friend + GPT combined can build whole apps.
> his worse friend + GPT combined can build whole apps.
Which is cool and noteworthy! But cute little apps are not the "craft". The craft is solving problems in novel ways, managing enormous complexity, scaling massively, delighting users, choosing just the right amount of future-proofing so that future migrations are smooth but the code remains comprehensible, balancing performance and readability, enabling other developers to build on your work... those sort of things.
Now, if senior-level developers or successful start-up CTOs start expressing that they feel AI can replace them... then I will worry that the craft is waning! (I'm not doubting it'll happen in my lifetime. It's just that this article isn't it.)
A year or two ago, building a passable app was for the average person 100% impossible. The average person has never written code beyond "hello world," and that might have only been for a school project. Programming is not exclusively corporate mingling. I'll give that the things you describe might be necessary for sufficiently large projects, but I'd also argue that the majority of code that exists is in the smaller projects, and the average person cannot grapple with even the smallest project. Now those smaller things are accessible to the average person when they simply weren't before.
The skill ceiling of programming is still very high. The skill floor has been irreversibly raised and the skill curve forever smoothed, even if only slightly.
