Carragee Consulting

Low/No Code tool & learning programing languages

I’m mostly kidding, but with the proliferation of Low/No code tools, near real time translation software and the incredible strides in semantic language querying it begs the question of if learning a new language (code or spoken) is worth your time?

Lang Chain Expression Language (LCEL) is the new kid in the block of coding languages. It’s almost more like learning the shortcut keys and operators to execute and query than a full coding language.

The question comes up all the time of what you need to learn to be successful in your career.

If like me, you graduated with a liberal arts degree and excelled mostly at reading, research and synthesizing complex ideas in 20 pages papers, you’re going to have to gain some new skills to thrive in corp America. The good news is, Machiavelli can be applied to office politics.

Frank Corrigan introduced me to a new decision framework of “Hell Yeah” or “No” for deciding what to pursue and prioritize. The key to prioritization is that there needs to be a clear ranking and to succeed in one area you need to stop doing and pursuing other things.

Applying the Hell Yeah/No framework to language learning — do you want to learn Rust, Python, LCEL, Arabic or Spanish? Do you have a reason to put the time and energy into those pursuits for long enough and consistently enough for the effort to feel rewarding?

If the thought of learning a new language makes you say “Hell Yeah”, then go for it. You’ll need ways to connect with people and carry ideas into action. If not, you are one of the people who will benefit from the advances in AI making translation and no code viable for a ton of use cases.