One of Obama’s dumber elitist ideas was claiming that America would fall behind unless everyone learned to code.
“We’ve got to have our kids in math and science, and it can’t just be a handful of kids. It’s got to be everybody. Everybody’s got to learn how to code early,” Obama insisted in an interview with Silicon Valley media’s favorite hag: Kara Swisher.
Why did everyone have to learn to code when the average high school student in Baltimore, Chicago and LA couldn’t even manage math at grade level?
Still, Obama insisted, “you want to do is introduce this with the ABCs and the colors.”
Teaching toddlers to code seemed loopy even by Obama’s standards, but it made him seem future-forward, and there was a proposed $4 billion to try and make it happen.
By the time Biden was running for office, he topped Obama by going to a coal mining town and urging everyone to learn to code.
“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well… Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program,” Biden insisted.
But when people began tweeting at media reporters who lost their jobs that they should learn to code, it became a ‘bannable offense’ on Twitter.
Now that AI is taking on a lot of routine coding tasks and a whole bunch of people are getting hired without having a clue what they’re doing, just outsourcing the work to AI, Obama has changed his mind.
Already, the current models of AI, not necessarily the ones that you purchase or that you just get through the retail ChatGPT, but the more advanced models that are available now to companies, they can code better than, let’s call it 60%-70% of coders. We’re talking highly skilled jobs that pay really good salaries, and that, up until recently, has been entirely a seller’s market in Silicon Valley.
A lot of that work is going to go away. The best coders will be able to use these tools to augment what they already do. But for a lot of routine stuff, you just won’t need a coder, because the computer or the machine will do it itself. That’s going to duplicate itself across professions.
And so, it’s one of the reasons I mentioned to you when we were backstage that I would argue right now, unless you are really good, like one of the top 1% of in terms of understanding how to code, you’re better off with liberal arts education.
Mind you, at no point does Obama admit that his stupid idea of teaching coding to little kids was dumb. Instead Obama acts as if he’s once again ahead of the curve when all he’s doing is repeating the sort of wisdom of the elites you pick up at cocktail parties.
