It's evident to me, and very interesting, that programming w/ the aid of AI is a different animal that without it.

A belief I hold with 100% conviction is that the skills for the two are different, and that the people who will be the most kickass hackers five years from now will have a quite different distribution of skills and tendencies from those who meet that standard now. Not a disjoint distribution, but a different one.

I'm not sure what will characterize that distribution exactly, but I'm in the process of figuring it out.