While C++ developers still exist (as a vanishing Red List rarity), the Global Market’s ever-growing hunger for faster and cheaper solutions is actually killing this frighteningly thinning layer of unique Real Engineers. We are seeing a shift from Craftsmen to easily-replaceable Technicians trained to pick best-fit (or not “best”?) framework from endless ever-changing list of “easy” or “no code” options. Unfortunately, the Industry is breeding wrong “specialists”.
You can’t avoid World’s complexity, you can just “hide” it inside of another “black box”. Every abstraction is a loan taken against future performance. When the “black box” fails, the Technician is helpless, only the Engineer who understands the underlying “scripture” can perform the exorcism.
While maintaining yourself as a marketable Technician is a matter of survival today, AI’s indisputable superiority in handling such “Technician” tasks will eventually (guess, sooner than later) kill this entire “no code” developer’s layer as a class, as well as their managers “with whips”. The only remaining demand will be for the Engineer.
Learn C++: the Sacred Language of the machine. While high-level, “low-code” frameworks, destined to fade, rarely survive their fifth birthday, C++ is the firmament you can rely on. It is as “forever” as the hardware itself. The “firmament” isn’t just about code—it’s about the very structure of the thought behind it.
While other languages drift into “slang” and “frameworks” (dialects), C++ remains the Sanskrit of the machine—a formal grammar that refuses to “evolve” into a black box, preserving the original Logic of Creation.
Even to use an AI effectively at a low level, one better speak the language the AI is actually abstracting.
In the coming age, many will read code with AI assistance, but few will write it with intent. To know C++ is to understand the hardware behind it. It is the difference between reciting a mantra and understanding the prayer.
Be a Keeper of the Sacred Language. In the upcoming AI Civilization, do not let the AI be the only one who understands the Word.