For the last decade, the gold standard of "future-proofing" your child was simply teach them to code. I even remember buying "coding" baby toys for my oldest, now eleven.
My husband and I sent the kids to Python camps and bought them robotic kits, convinced that if they could speak the language of machines, they’d never be obsolete. Cut to 2026, and it's clear the language of machines has changed. It's no longer C++ or Java. It’s English.
As someone who spends my weekdays stress-testing models like Gemini and Claude, I’ve watched the "barrier to entry" for software creation vanish. We are moving from an era of syntax (knowing where the semicolon goes) to an era of intent (knowing what to build and why).
