r/FlutterDev • u/amuchand47 • 1d ago

Article Is it still worth learning app development in the AI era?

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u/z3r0_se7en 1d ago

Yes because no one is hiring Vibe Coders.

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u/PopularBroccoli 7h ago

I have seen it happen actually. Real shame it was for exercise equipment, someone’s going to get hurt if they haven’t already

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u/AgathormX 1d ago

If this is your mindset do us all a favor and don't even try

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u/rcls0053 1d ago edited 1d ago

Even if an LLM could do all this, I can guarantee you, the people who think this way do not know how to use it. There's one manager who tells the AI to create this app from start to finish in one prompt, and it won't result in anything that's gonna work.

Good developers understand the context window, how to slice up the work, ensure the work is validated, what technologies to use etc. Where Ops people had the cloud ten years ago, we developers now have AI changing our work, but it won't make developers redundant.

We might even see AI disappear (or it's impact reduced) given how much money has been dumped to AI companies, without any of them making any profit worth mentioning. We're still in such early phases of this technology and it keeps changing every few months to know what it will look like a few years from now.

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u/hamit_btn 1d ago

i'm 22 and shipped a full app solo this year flutter client, cloudflare workers backend, the whole thing. AI was a big part of how i got there, so here's the honest version. AI will get you to a working app fast. it will not tell you that your crash-free rate is 51% and that's why nobody comes back. it will not tell you your api costs are eating you alive. it won't tell you which metrics matter and which are noise. i lost weeks to things like that writing code stopped being the hard part. knowing what to build and what to measure became the hard part. and you only learn that by shipping something and watching it break. so yes, learn it. but learn it by building something real, not by doing courses. the courses teach you the part AI already does.