He was coding at 12 like Elon Musk and became one of Google’s youngest ever CMOs—but now says Gen Z is better off ice skating than learning to code

With AI already generating 30% of Microsoft's codebase and Zuckerberg predicting AI will write all code by 2026, ex-Google CMO Alon Chen argues coding education is now obsolete for Gen Z—signaling a potential end-of-era moment for software engineering as an entry-level career path.