If my son ever asks me whether he should learn another language other than his mother tongue, because, anyhow, we have devices now that can do instant translation, I'll probably answer that having the tech do it for you does not remove all the other benefits of learning a language. And I hope that his personal experience learning languages will corroborate this. If it does, then I can probably also figure out a way to teach him the importance of learning how to code, even though LLMs can do a lot for you. In the same way that I had to learn my multiplication tables, even though a calculator could do it for me.
Yeah, it's an interesting time we live in.
If my son ever asks me whether he should learn another language other than his mother tongue, because, anyhow, we have devices now that can do instant translation, I'll probably answer that having the tech do it for you does not remove all the other benefits of learning a language. And I hope that his personal experience learning languages will corroborate this. If it does, then I can probably also figure out a way to teach him the importance of learning how to code, even though LLMs can do a lot for you. In the same way that I had to learn my multiplication tables, even though a calculator could do it for me.
Interesting times...