One of the extraordinary abilities of the character Naomi Nagata in the Expanse was her ability to write actual code that functionally worked and was imperceptibly different to all of the presumably AI enhanced coding tools available to people at the time.

There’s a future coming where so much of code is built from cludge out of something like code blocks that you can dictate to a computer that people who can code for real and actually understand first principles will be something of a security threat given how much we’re going to have to rely on automated testing systems.

I don’t know just a thought I’m not much of a programmer and AI makes it a little too easy to feel like I know what I’m doing until one of my friends asks me what type of isolation I’ve considered for the script calls and I realize I’m genuinely not a coder.