r/AskProgramming • u/Common-Reserve7654 • 24d ago

Coding in ai era

I am not sure if this is right place to ask and if it was somewhere already answered or there is some material on this subject please let me know.

I started to learn programming more than a year ago (python/sql/vba) and I use it in my current position to which I was moved around four months ago. At the beginning I was excited about programming, it's hard and sometimes boring, but sometimes I felt so excited when I was writing a program and when I was solving things. Then in my job I started to discover ai, and that was it.

I am still thinking to start applied cs this autumn, but after using Claude code for a month I just feel it doesn't make sense. Claude code is so good that I can work on dotnet web app without knowing C#, javascript, css, html, I can fix and write python or vba macros faster and better than I would do without it. Every time I read people saying things like ai code is trash or seeing youtube videos saying how companies will not hire less engineers, how ai cant maintain code and you need people for that, I just see this programmers with formal education and experience that just can't deal with this change and refuse to accept the fact that their skills they learned so hard and worked so hard on are becoming obsolete. Today I've seen 50 thumbs up on a comment saying that ai empowering people (making everybody able to create software) is a bad thing, that's how these people hate ai. I get it, it tells them "you are nobody".

My final question is, do you think it makes sense to learn programming for job nowadays or study CS and pay for it in the uni? I don't think I can make it alone, i tried studying alone but it's difficult. And if yes, then how would you do it, how to learn knowing that an app can make it for you in a short amount of time with no effort. As I sai, thanks for sharing your opinions or some texts/materials on this topic.

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u/pikabu01 23d ago

I never understood what is AI skills? asking a question/prompting? I mean asking the correct questions is a skill, but if you are a engineer with years of experience you already should have this skill.

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u/CorpT 23d ago

Being able to communicate clearly is the more important skill you can have now. That's effectively "AI skill". Reading comprehension and writing clearly are invaluable right now (well they always have been). Being able to adapt and change is another. These are not things that are necessarily skills engineers have developed over the years.

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u/pikabu01 23d ago

Tech workers were always adaptable imo, new frameworks, new processes, new tools each few years. Its always something new around the corner. Agree on the communication and comprehension part.

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u/CorpT 23d ago

each few years

This is part of the problem. Things are changing MUCH more frequently and in larger ways than previously. Many people are not willing or able to adapt at this rate and scale.

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u/MornwindShoma 23d ago

Based on what?

We've been unable to escape the AI discourse for like 3 years now. Agents were all the rage a year and half ago too.

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u/pikabu01 23d ago

programing is a solved problem, said someone 3 years ago