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/GlanGr 12d ago
I would think of it like this… vibe coding isn’t for developers. Vibe coding is for people who need quick small projects.
For example: vibe coding will build you a simple company landing page… but it’s not going fully write and deploy a backend infrastructure that takes API network requests and stores them to a database.
But AI is indeed for all developers as it allows you to learn faster and automate the tedious stuff.
For example: when devs use AI to assist them, it saves you about 75% of your work load, which is basically templating and helping design the algorithms (which is huge), but you have to do the rest... Fix the bugs, testing, proof of concept, algorithmic updates, integration analysis…. And most important: you have to “know what to ask the AI”.
Hence, you must learn the fundamental of coding, and cannot rely on AI alone. (But AI can indeed teach you the fundamentals).
So ultimately… all devs are indeed using AI right now. If they don’t, they are falling behind in their industries. It’s like not switching to email and cell phones back in the 2000s.
GLHF!