Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
The article discusses the author's perspective on career decisions, particularly regarding coding skills. The author reflects on their experiences in the workplace and how coding was often associated with subordinates. They express confidence in their language skills, suggesting that human translation will always hold value despite advancements in technology.
- ▪The author never learned how to code and observed that coders were often in subordinate roles.
- ▪They believe their choice not to code has been vindicated by the rise of vibe-coding.
- ▪The author values their language skills, stating that real-time translators will never fully replace human translators.
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Never learned how to code. Those who did were always the subordinates, not-getting-laid, not deciding factors etc. within the companies that I observed through indipendent discovery and of course during the various organized visits to companies that we did during college.Now with vibe-coding my choice has been vindicated.On the other hand I have Spanish, Italian and a bit of Portuguese under my belt and contrary to coding no matter how much technology and AI advances... real time translators that will be developed will always look uncanny in the eyes of an other human.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.