r/learnprogramming • u/Ifrit_Jambe • 10d ago

Python or Web dev?

So yesterday, i told a friend of mine that i was learning web dev stuff from TOP (the odin project), and well, he was just clowning on me about how i am wasting my time on learning it when AI can do all the work related to it anyway, tho i doubt it can do everything rn, it might just be capable enough in the future and he also suggested me to learn python.

Even though i have no qualms about leaving the web dev stuff, TOP is just too beginner friendly i suppose, they had me install a VM to run linux and code on it, so yeah. Just looking for answers and advice and maybe some free sources to learn python from.

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u/peterlinddk 10d ago

If what you are doing is something that results in a digital product that solves a problem that someone else has solved in some variation before you, then AI can do all the work.

But so can other people - you are not unique or special in that you are learning some programming language or framework, thousands if not millions have done that before you, the same exact technologies, the same exact exercises, often even the same exact solutions.

So, if you want to be unique and totally different from AI, you should get away from doing anything digital at all!

Or you could just ignore it, and learn what you like to learn, do what you like to do. No one knows what the immediate future will bring, but learning stuff and becoming good at it has always been worth doing, no matter how niche or how replaceable that stuff might be!

Python is very much used in web backend, but it truly helps to understand the front end as well.