"Learning to Program" and LLMs

the discourse of "should I learn programming" keeps popping up; also the discourse of "programming" "going away" started to pop up with LLMs
I think the distinction to make is between "programming" as in "profession to build software", and "programming" as in "computational thinking"
- LLMs definitely are useful with the former right now, and I think will become more useful over time, as we figure out the Open Questions Around LLM Interfaces for this activity
  - even then, I don't think "programming" as a profession will go away, but that might be wishful thinking
- on the other hand, "computational thinking" is more like reading, writing, arithmetic, geometry, playing an instrument, etc.
  - it's the Papert's Constructionism, the Key's Dynabook, the Bret's Dynamicland, the "Simulator", etc.
  - I don't think it's possible, or useful, to offload this to a bunch of GPUs
  - and I think it's useful to learn, the same way anything else is useful to learn

Szymon Kaliski