Rethinking Education in the AI Age

A few years ago, the consensus among guidance counselors, think tanks, and anxious parents was clear: Learn to code. Coding was the hedge against obsolescence, the rational response to a world reshaped by technology. Learn Python or fall behind: Such was the implicit motto of a decade of educational reform. Then the large language models arrived, and it turned out that writing code is what they do best. AI might generate 90 percent of all programming code by the end of the year. The generation of students who traded Pynchon for Python is watching their credential depreciate in real time.