"Learning to program was so obviously the right thing in the recent past. Now it is not."
Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-14
Sam Altman states that learning to program is no longer the obviously correct skill to acquire, signaling a shift in what foundational skills matter in the AI era.
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Topics: future-of-workprogrammingai-era-skills
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- Sam Altman asserts that programming, once a clearly superior skill to learn, is no longer obviously the right choice.
- The AI era has disrupted the conventional wisdom about which technical skills provide career advantage.
Key quotes
Learning to program was so obviously the right thing in the recent past. Now it is not.