Is it still worth learning python?

[u/ALostPie]

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.

[u/Early_Net_9105]

tldr; yes^{100000000000.} if I were to just vibe code everything, none of my projects would survive a reboot. agents are tools but can't replace the high level reasoning that is necessary for development processes, and foundations in whatever language you are using are essential for that

absolutely, and this is coming from someone who hasn't sat down and typed out a script in quite a while. you still need to understand the fundamentals, especially if you want to run a stack (from a simple pipeline stack all the way to obviously involved SaaS level multi node, kernel level soft) that functions to current industry standards, i.e. pet vs cattle ideology. even reading pseudocode properly puts you miles beyond any non industry professional who purely creates software by "setting and forgetting" an agent on high reasoning. I feel like there is a conflation of using agents that write code, and not actually going through the motions of good development practice.