Dr. Marcell Vollmer’s Post

I agree and disagree. LLMs are limited by a person's ability to describe what they need. The solution is simple, LLMs need to join academics and do so in an organized way. They solve almost every issue with academia, the ability to ask why, the ability of curiosity, and the ability for help. However the biggest problem with school is that it solves problems for you. Being a person who has learned many new skills on their own, there is a phase where you don't know what you dont know. Usually school gives the answers when it should be teaching people how to breach that barrier rather than telling the answer. What will happen later when a structure doesn't exist and the person needs to know how to solve that hurdle? A lot of people give up. LLMs can help with this but learning how to overcome this new skill problem can extremely difficult since you don't know the questions to ask, and this exasperated when it comes to very complex skills like coding, circuit design, or large mechanical systems. It is a lot easier to train people in a structured environment to learn how to tackle these initial hurdles than it is for someone on their own to constantly ask why since they won't be asking the right questions.

I strongly disagree with this. By not learning the programming skills you will be unable to understand what the tool you are operating actually does. By putting blind fate in the person that creates the user interface, ultimately, you are putting blind faith into whatever they prepare for you. Now for a calculator, it is easier to verify whether it is properly working or not. However, for AI generated information this might be much more difficult. By being ignorant on this aspect, you are giving away a lot of autonomy.

Sorry but I have to express my strong disagreement on these statements. Yes, it is important that people become domain experts and are able to solve real world problems. But if you don't know and understand the technology that your solution is based on, you will not be able to understand potential problems nor be able to achieve more than an okayish result. And this is why I still strongly believe that it is important to learn programming languages. It's an important part of your personal toolbox and it also helps you to foresee the potential obstacles on the way to a solution and last but not least allows you to express yourself when talking to other people. So please young folks out there: learn how to hack, solve coding challenges and attend hackathons to become a better engineer but also to become part of the world wide community of coding craftsmen!

I was just working with my daughter on her LinkedIn profile to apply for internships. She’s a freshman in college. We talk about this a lot. She’s studying data science, psychology, and UX Design (she’s an artist). I firmly believe that we need to encourage generalists and complex problem solvers in the next generation. They need to be well rounded and able to embrace ambiguity. GenZ is already starting to automate their jobs whether their bosses know it or not.

Understand technology, don't just learn a language, be it coding or anything else. Discussing coding in schools doesn't mean 'coding' is dead or useless. Coding at "school " like during the early school years is getting useless indeed but we still need computer science universities and a sense of how to program a computer and smartphone during college. Knowing algorithmics and how computers and AIs are working is precious so that these continue to be great tools. From Humans to Humans, always and ever, be it an AI in between, it's just a bridge.

I totally disagree with this theory..like seriously.. Wait you mean to tell me we should accept whatever AI tell us..No The Aim is to learn everything basic. When you know the language,you can understand, create,Recreate,Invent,Reinvent anything.. The GUI,codes, Hardware and everything AI user needs must be understood to the very last micro chip Everyone can't code... Some people must just be the end user,I agree to that.. We must not all put our hope and faith in AI.. It's still just a computer with so many human limitations

Couldn't agree more. The obsession with teaching computer coding in English schools has taken valuable hands-on time away from more important aspects of digital literacy and 'Office' productivity skills. the coding jobs promised over 13 years ago when this trend began just haven't materialised. Particularly in primary schools the teaching of computer coding has become a digital cul del sac which we need to reverse out of.

Dr. Marcell Vollmer Jensen Huang's perspective on the future of coding and AI is thought-provoking. The idea of using human language prompts to enable everyone to become a programmer reflects the potential of AI to revolutionize how we interact with technology. While some may view this as the end of traditional coding, others may see it as an opportunity to democratize programming and make it more accessible to a wider audience. It will be interesting to see how these advancements unfold and the implications they have for the future of technology and education.

Absolut richtig. Man braucht Coding nicht mehr. Das macht die AI. So wie wir keine Maschinensprache mehr lernen sondern heute Python nutzen. Mir bleibt die Frage, wer dann noch die Dinge IN DER BLACKBOX versteht und nachvollziehen kann. Oder geben wir damit auch gleichzeitig die Kontrolle über die IT an die AI ab? 🤔🙄

Yeah I think we should teach logic, problem solving, planning and project management. Because he’s right, soon AI will be able to write your code. BUT, you still need to understand what it’s writing. You need to know what you have, even if you didn’t write it yourself.