{"slug": "how-will-the-decline-in-need-for-technical-skills-will-affect-internet-cultures", "title": "How will the decline in need for technical skills will affect internet cultures?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asks how the decline in need for technical skills, driven by AI, will affect hacker/nerd/geek culture, which was built on deep technical knowledge in software and computer science fields.", "body_md": "I feel like in the past, software jobs like programming, IT and academic fields like computer science, created some identity -- these fields required deep understanding of technical details, which attracted a specific type of people, and thus allowed a certain type of culture to be created, what's called the hacker/nerd/geek culture -- and now in the age of ai, this technical knowledge is much less relevant. What will happen to this culture?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049379](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049379)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-will-the-decline-in-need-for-technical-skills-will-affect-internet-cultures", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049379", "published_at": "2026-07-25 17:08:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-25 17:22:20.456541+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-will-the-decline-in-need-for-technical-skills-will-affect-internet-cultures", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-will-the-decline-in-need-for-technical-skills-will-affect-internet-cultures.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-will-the-decline-in-need-for-technical-skills-will-affect-internet-cultures.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-will-the-decline-in-need-for-technical-skills-will-affect-internet-cultures.jsonld"}}