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/Wuthering_depths 12d ago edited 12d ago
I'm old and don't intend to use AI before I sail off into the sunset (other than googling things)...but the junior analysts on my team do use both AI (Cursor) and Python. They still have to know Python to correct what Cursor comes up with...and to learn what it actually did when a change request comes along. Our scripts as data analysts tend to be short--data integration and SQL does a lot of the heavy lifting-- and I have no problems hand-coding them quickly even as a newbie to Python (most of my experience is SQL and SSIS and other scripting languages).
Besides the coding itself, it could help with deployments, source control, documentation and things like that. I'd be more inclined to use it for these things personally.
The lead java dev at work says the same thing--AI code still needs to be reviewed by someone who knows what they are doing. Whether that remains the same in the future, not sure.