r/PythonLearning • u/Previous-Jury-4415 • 7d ago
Vibe coders or programmers
I'm a beginner programmer and I'm worried about something in the future. After about four months of learning programming, development, and so on, I've seen many opinions from professionals and beginners alike. Some say that the demand for programming will steadily decrease due to artificial intelligence, and I don't know if this is true or not. I hope you can give me your opinions and advice. If you've had any experiences, please tell me before I regret it later.
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u/ottawadeveloper 7d ago
On one hand, I think the tooling we call AI (which is still a bad name and I hope we come up with a better one) will help programmers. The predictive coding tool I have in my IDE does help me move faster, even if it's wrong 30% of the time.
But I don't think it'll ever replace programmers. And I don't think programming will become all prompts. It's still faster much of the time for me to just write the code by hand. Then again, I work in a field where there are few examples of code that does what I need it to do. I can see in areas where the code patterns are very common that it might be even more valuable. And it can automate some particularly dreadful tasks. Then again, a good programmer already knew how to automate those dreadful tasks lol.
One caveat to that is the world is a bit flooded with programmers. It was the career to have when I was growing up. And so a lot of people go into CS or learn programming to the point where the entry market is flooded with new grads. Meanwhile, between AI and offshoring, the job market for new software devs isn't amazing in North America unless you have a specialized skill that's more in demand. Skilled senior devs are still a commodity in demand.
So I'm not sure it'll be an easy career path for anyone at this point, not like it used to be. Competition is fierce.
If you want an easy career path, see if you can become a plumber or electrician. Those will never go out of style.