[Highlight] The Future of Coding and Work in the Age of AI with Henry Shi

Hey. Ben Kesnoka here, cofounder and general partner of Village Global, a network native venture firm. What you're about to hear is a clip from a longer conversation. If you'd like to listen to the full length version, find the link in the description. Of course, subscribe so you don't miss the next one. Enjoy. I think of, anthropic is really leading in Alright. Coding Mhmm. Because it's with Glide. What what is the future of coding, do you think? I think Entopec is, certainly leading in coding in many many ways and and in many areas outside of coding as well, like knowledge work and things like that. One thing, I mean, this is all public, which is if you think about how coding is developed. Right? Like, a year ago, 2094, we barely had tab auto complete. Right? You could tab auto complete some functions, and that was, like, pretty incredible. Then the twenty one five five came around, and you had coding. Like, you can chat with the agent, Vibe coding, you had clock code, WinSort of things like that. And now by the end of 2025, you have pretty good agents that are kind of junior interview level engineers. Right? And this is a tweet from one of the, Adam Wolf, which is a former engineering manager on Cloud Code. He says something to the effect of, like, software engineering has to be no one may be done by twenty nine six. Right? And this is you can look at them on Twitter. So this is something that, again, no one knows the future. But if you think about just the fact of writing code and this pace at which we scale from twenty four and twenty five to 26, it's a real shot that the way we write code is gonna change forever and no one's gonna and I think the analogy you use is it's kinda like no one really thinks about a compiler. Right? You just write the code and it spits out some binary bytecode and it just works. So because you have that and you write English and out comes Python, which then gets translated to binary, like, maybe. Yeah. And so for the foreseeable future, how how much do you think a coding background matters? I think having problem solving, critical reasoning matters a ton still, because coding is just a a way to express formal logic. And that a lot of that is grounded in, like, problem solving, critical reasoning, first principle thinking, and things like that. So I think those foundational building blocks still matter. But, yeah, writing Python, I'm not sure. Just like writing COBOL and Fortran didn't really doesn't really matter right now. Right? Or, like, writing C plus plus in many cases may not even matter. So Like speaking Latin? Yeah. Exactly. And so, yeah. Yeah. And I think in many ways, maybe English is the Python of the future. And how do you think …