The CEO of a startup helping non-techies code still sees a lot of value in engineering degrees
THE SO WHAT
Low-code that actually works will increase the premium on people who understand systems, not decrease it. If AI can give non-engineers syntax, your differentiator as an engineer becomes architecture, debugging, and owning reliability under load.
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