Really valid points. I agree with the bits about “expertise in getting the computer to do what you want” being the way of the future, but he also raises really valid points about people having strong domain knowledge (a la his colleague with extensive art history knowledge being better at midjourney than him) after saying it’s okay to tell people to just let the LLM write code for you and learn to code that way. I am having a hard time with the contradictions, maybe it’s me. Not meaning to rag on Dr. Ng, just further the conversation. (Which is super interesting to me.)

EDIT: rereading and realizing I think what resonates most is we are in agreement about the antithetical aspects of the talk. I think this is the crux of the issue.