It’s not possible to make you unskilled if you’re skilled. At worst, you’d get rusty. It is possible that your skills might not be in high demand anymore though.
The only thing that would make programmers not be in demand is if “vibe coding” were truly producing a better product than traditional programming. So far, the only ones making that claim are the ones desperately trying to sell “AI” before the bubble bursts. It’s true that there are some companies that really want to believe it. But, companies are always desperately hoping for something that can allow them to fire their expensive workers. It’s rare that that works out.
It’s not possible to make you unskilled if you’re skilled. At worst, you’d get rusty. It is possible that your skills might not be in high demand anymore though.
The only thing that would make programmers not be in demand is if “vibe coding” were truly producing a better product than traditional programming. So far, the only ones making that claim are the ones desperately trying to sell “AI” before the bubble bursts. It’s true that there are some companies that really want to believe it. But, companies are always desperately hoping for something that can allow them to fire their expensive workers. It’s rare that that works out.
It’s been aggressively pushed upon new programmers though, a whole generation who might potentially never develop skills to begin with
So was Mountain Dew. That doesn’t mean people had to drink it.