not trying to be controversial but I genuinely think the skill that matters now isn't writing code. its directing it
I shipped an actual app to the play store. flutter, firebase, real users, the whole thing. I can barely read half the code it generated and honestly that hasn't mattered once because the bottleneck was never "can you write a for loop" it was "do you know what you actually want this thing to do and can you describe it clearly enough that something else builds it for you"
feels like we're at this weird inflection point where the people shipping fastest aren't the best programmers, they're the ones who can hold a clear picture of what they're building and communicate it without ambiguity. thats a completely different skill than coding. closer to directing a film than writing a screenplay
I know this sounds disrespectful to developers and I genuinely don't mean it that way. knowing enough to read errors and understand architecture still matters a lot. but telling someone in 2026 to grind leetcode for 6 months before they can build anything feels like telling someone to learn to develop film before they can take a photo
where do you guys actually land on this