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Don’t Learn to Code 2

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As a follow-up to my first post on this topic, look at the Guardian’s summary article, “Will AI wipe out the first rung of the career ladder?”

The Guardian cites several sources:

  • Anthropic states (possibly in self-interest) that unemployment could hit 20% in five years.
  • One quarter of all programming jobs already vanished in the last two years.
  • A LinkedIn executive echoed the pessimism about the future (while LinkedIn hypes its own AI capabilities to secure the dwindling number of jobs remaining).
  • The Federal Reserve cited high college graduate rates of unemployment (5.8%) and underemployment (41.2%).

Read the entire article here.

Don’t Learn to Code

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Some of you may remember the 2010s, when learning to code would solve all your problems forever and ever. 

There was even an “Hour of Code” in 2014:

“The White House also announced Monday that seven of the nation’s largest school districts are joining more than 50 others to start offering introductory computer science courses.”

But people on the other side of the aisle endorsed the advice:

“On its own, telling a laid-off journalist to “learn to code” is a profoundly annoying bit of “advice,” a nugget of condescension and antipathy. It’s also a line many of us may have already heard from relatives who pretend to be well-meaning, and who question an idealistic, unstable, and impecunious career choice.”

But the sentiment was the same: get out of dying industries and do something meaningful that will set you up for life.

Well, that’s what they thought in the 2010s.

Where are the “learn to code” advocates in 2025?

They’re talking to non-person entities, not people:

“Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott expects the next half-decade to see more AI-generated code than ever — but that doesn’t mean human beings will be cut out of the programming process.

“”95% is going to be AI-generated,” Scott said when asked about code within the next five years on an episode of the 20VC podcast. “Very little is going to be — line by line — is going to be human-written code.””

So the 2010s “learn to code” movement has been replaced by the 2020s “let AI code” movement. While there are valid questions about whether AI can actually code, it’s clear that companies would prefer not to hire human coders, who they perceive to be as useless as human journalists.

Simeio: Identity is the Perimeter of Cybersecurity

Simeio opened its monthly newsletter with a statement. Here is an excerpt:

“May spotlighted how even the most advanced enterprises are vulnerable when identity systems are fragmented, machine identities go unmanaged, and workflows rely too heavily on manual intervention—creating conditions ripe for risk. Enterprises need to get the message: identity is the perimeter of cybersecurity, and orchestration is the force multiplier. It’s time to learn how to effectively leverage it.”

Read the rest of Simeio’s newsletter on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/identity-matters-may-2025-identitywithsimeio-iby0e

Of course, there’s that interesting wrinkle of the identities of non-person entities, which may or may not be bound to human identities. Simeio, with its application onboarding solution, plays in the NPE space.

As for me, I need to start thinking about MY Bredemarket monthly LinkedIn newsletter (The Wildebeest Speaks) soon. June approaches. (Here’s the May edition if you missed it.)

Identity-Bound Non-Person Entities

In my writings on non-person entities (NPEs), I have mentally assumed that NPEs go their own way and do their own thing, separate from people. So while I (John Bredehoft) have one set of permissions, the bot N. P. E. Bredemarket has “his” own set of permissions.

Not necessarily.

Anonybit and SmartUp have challenged my assumption, saying that AI agents could be bound to human identities.

“Anonybit…announced the first-ever live implementation of agentic commerce secured by decentralized biometrics, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of enterprise AI.

“Through a strategic partnership with SmartUp, a no-code platform for deploying enterprise AI agents, Anonybit is powering authenticated, identity-bound agents in real-world order, payment, and supply chain workflows….

“Anonybit’s identity token management system enables agents to operate on behalf of users with precise, auditable authorization across any workflow—online, in-person, or automated.”

So—if you want to—all your bot buddies can be linked to you, and you bear the responsibility for their actions. Are you ready?

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Evading State Taxes: Non-Person Automotive Entities and Geolocation

When a person is born in the United States, they obtain identifiers such as a name and a Social Security Number.

When a non-person entity is “born,” it gets identifiers also. For automobiles, the two most common ones are a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) and a license plate number. (There is also title, which I’ve discussed before, but that’s not really an identifier.)

In my country license plates and the associated vehicle registrations, like driver’s licenses, are issued at the state level. Montana, for example, has 2.3 million registered vehicles…which is odd, because the state only has 879,000 licensed drivers.

How can this be? Jalopnik explains:

“All that wealthy car owners have to do is spend around $1,000 to open an LLC in Montana, then use the LLC to purchase a car with no sales tax — and said car is not subject to vehicle inspections or emissions testing.”

That explains things. The Montana LLCs need multiple cars for all their LLC-related travel between Billings, Bozeman, and Butte. That’s a ton of miles on the Montana highways.

Um…no.

“According to Bloomberg, former Montana revenue director Dan Bucks said there are likely more than 600,000 vehicles registered in Montana but operated in other states.”

Like California. Where people don’t want to pay the fees associated with vehicle registration here, so they say their vehicles are Montana vehicles. Only problem is, license plate readers on California freeways can identify the movements of a car with Montana plates. And if that “Montana” car is moving in California, expect a visit from the tax authority.

But it’s not just the money hungry loony liberal Commies in California. Jalopnik reports that the money hungry loony liberal Commies in…um…Utah are mad also.

“This is really an abuse of our tax system,” said Utah tax commissioner John Valentine. “They pay nothing to support our state, just a small fee to Montana for the opportunity to evade taxes in Utah.”

Because in the end it doesn’t matter if you’re blue or red. What matters is the green. And the geolocation.

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Forgot About Faulds

Nowadays, everybody wanna say that they got big TED talks

But nothin’ comes out when they press their fingers

Just a bunch of gibberish 

And CSIs act like they forgot about Faulds

And my N. P. E. Bredemarket Instagram metabot forgot too.

But at least he didn’t cite Gabe Guo.

And I don’t have a rap career.

Forgot About Faulds.

N. P. E. Bredemarket is Live on Instagram

Now that it’s showing up in search, I will announce what I’ve done. Although I shouldn’t have done it.

I created my own Meta AI character on Instagram.

I was nosing around in my Instagram settings and discovered I could create an AI bot. So I did. You may or may not be able to create your own: see https://help.instagram.com/1675196359893731 for instructions.

“His” name is N. P. E. Bredemarket. Regular Bredemarket blog readers know that NPE stands for non-person entity.

You can find N. P. E. here: https://aistudio.instagram.com/ai/1252267426260667/

Or you can search for it.

Instagram AI search.

Warning: like all AI, he can hallucinate.

#fakefakefake

If Your Identity System Only Manages People, It Is Flawed

This is painful, but it has to be done.

I’ve spent 30 years working with the identities of PEOPLE and ensuring that all PEOPLE accessing a system are properly identified.

In other words, leaving a huge GAPING security hole.

Look at what Okta is doing;

“[N]ew Okta Platform capabilities…help businesses secure AI agents and other non-human identities with the same level of visibility, control, governance, and automation as human ones. The Okta Platform will now bring a unified, end-to-end identity security fabric to organizations for managing and securing all types of identities across their ecosystem, from AI agents to API keys to employees.”

I think that “unified” will take the place of “trust” as the identity buzzword. Thankfully.

If you’re only selling biometrics, or maybe biometrics and ID cards, where will your customers go to get the rest of their systems? Or will you just be a commodity supplier to the companies that provide the REAL systems?

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NPEs and Emotions

When I introduced emotions as the seventh question in Bredemarket’s seven questions, I was thinking about how a piece of content could invoke a variety of emotions in a human reader.

Oh, John, your thinking is so limited.

In a piece in Freethink, Kevin Kelly discussed emotions…in non-person entities (NPEs).

“Like anything else, I think in some cases robots with emotions will be really good. It’s good in the sense that emotions are one of the best human interfaces. If you want to interface with us humans, we respond to emotions, and so having an emotional component in robots is a very smart, powerful way to help us work with them.”

More here.