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Contrarian thought:

Is this what we want to do?

With things like GitHub CoPilot, numerous no-code solutions, coding being codified, etc. how much skill and demand is there looking ahead?

I wonder if the future is as bright as the pass. Perhaps it's just me.

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I don't think CoPilot belongs in the same category as no-code. If you don't have any coding experience you'll struggle to express what you want it to write into words, much less be able to integrate it into a larger system.

My lens is CoPilot makes those already writing code more effective (i.e., there's less need for more who can write code).

That said, and to your point, with CoPilot - which is still early days - we don't need to teach people to write code, we need them to express ideas in a way that CoPilot (or similar) can understand and convert into code. Which might be something that that original question answers.

I wonder if the future is as bright as the pass.

Depends on whether you mean for dev salaries or for humanity as a whole.

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