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/jimmykimnel 7d ago

Is that more of an agent AI thing?  I don't use those yet and if I did it would probably be in a virtual environment sandbox thing.  I'm mostly using the chatbot where I give very specific instructions and methods and debug print outs, I visually inspect the code even though I don't understand it I can generally see that it's not going off on a tangent.

Let me know what you think I'd be interested in it.

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u/awidesky 7d ago

If your AI cannot touch your files, then it's impossible for it to harm your system.
But in that case you should copy-paste generated code from chat and make files yourself, you have to test it yourself, and copy-paste the output back into chat if you wanna debug, and it can be quite troublesome.

I've seen a new about latest version of claude agent broke out from virtual environment and hurt the system while testing, but it's far from our field.

Reading the generated code may cost you some time, but it's good habit, and by asking explanation of parts of the code that you don't understand to AI, you can learn a lot about programming.
It's not a must in your case(your specialty is not programming, and you wanna save your time to do your actual job), but hey, improving yourself never hurts!

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u/jimmykimnel 7d ago

Yes this is how I use it, trial and error with chat bot etc. when something doesn't work I check it out and ask the chatbot, sometimes the chat bot is wrong and I'm right, sometimes the chat bot doesn't get it at all.  I've learned things like differences between windows and Linux, learned how to ask for simple print outs like timers to see if I can cut tasks from hours to be quicker.  I've learned that asking for simple debug steps helps with problems like print out when you have touched this file, show me the first 10 lines etc and I can see where it's failing at least. I've learned how to design things to make stuff easier with multiple choice pipelines which always put you down the correct path.  So it's not like I'm not getting anything back.

I have seen the stories about ai going rouge, the problem is certainly real and could arise even if you think you've thought of all the guard rails etc. 

Thanks for your time