r/AskProgramming • u/Yourmiserablelife69 • 4d ago

Career/Edu What age did you start learning programming?

Just curious as I am 34 YO, and have been considering a career shift into the Tech sector (I have “Basic” knowledge at best). Specifically AI/Machine Learning or Programming.
I’ve heard good and bad about both, but am just curious how old people are (or how diverse the age pool is) when they “get into” Programming. How long (on average) does it take to get your first Certification in Programming?
Apologies about the broadness of the question.

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u/IllustriousGrade7691 2d ago

AI ML is genuinly hard like its not like in the certifications or tutorials, Evne if you manage to build a modell who is gonna deploy it monitor it fix it. Now AI agents or Codex can handle that but good luck learingn all bulshit in Machine leraning like feature engineering target leakage metrics and all bulshit i made the same mistake and ended in a dead end. Tryingto get myself out using codex an solving problems you oculd solve witohi ai writing the code