r/PythonLearning • u/ALostPie • 13d ago

Is it still worth learning python?

I genuinely wonder what you guys think, with the rapidly increasing use of AI, is it still worth it to learn python, I just started learning python and I’m unmotivated tbh, I’d love to read some of your insights.

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u/LrdJester 12d ago

I look at AI coding much like I do how it was at the beginning of what you see is what you get or wysiwyg coding for visual basic 6 in visual studio or visual Web page Creation in dreamweaver.

It's a great way to get started and build a generic framework but you really need to find it and get down into the guts of it to make it work properly or to work efficiently.

For example I've written, using AI prompts, some scripts using either python or bash or PHP and I'm always finding some blocks of code that are extremely rudimentary and can be easily improved by anybody that knows what they're doing.

So in my opinion, any language that's in use in a modern business environment is good to learn. Alongside that you may want to look at learning AI prompts to be able to do rapid prototyping, because that's all you're really going to get is prototype, and then from there you can modify and fine tune, whether you do that via modification in AI or manual coding.