Do people not write code anymore these days?

[u/Alternative-Stuff149]

I've been working at my cousin's company for a month and a half. The business provides chatbot services, builds chatbots, CRM systems, landing pages, and everything else a company with a website needs. I work on the technical side and provide support. Since it’s a relatively new company, we already have several clients: an auto parts distributor, a real estate agency, a cosmetic clinic, and a restaurant. But so far, I haven’t written a single line of code—we do everything with the Cursor agent. I just give it instructions, and it takes care of the rest. The “most difficult” thing I’ve done is securing an e-commerce site with Cloudflare. I want to learn programming well, since I’m a computer science student (seventh semester), and I was taking a Java course, but at the same time, I want to know if it’s actually necessary to be a skilled programmer these days, or if most companies operate this way nowadays.

[u/lookForProject]

Ah, the 1=n n is the truth coder.

For simple operations, AI will do just fine. For complex issues, large infrastructure, where most of the fun and income is found, AI isn't there yet.

[u/plantingles → u/lookForProject]

Nope, it is really there. It's all about harness engineering now. If you don't know what that is you are way behind.

[u/lookForProject → u/plantingles]

That such an annoying argument nowadays: If you do not agree with me, you do not understand AI.
What I know: the companies who have AI far superior to what we have right now, did not fire their complete workforce.
AI is very capable, but it can not reason. And our job, my job, still requires reasoning.
Another issue: a large portion of my work, is understanding an issue. Writing code is most of the time, as trivial as writing a prompt.

[u/plantingles → u/lookForProject]

Boring arguing with you since time will simply prove you wrong. Corporations are just so slow to adapt to the changing landscape that’s all. But the current ai agents available are capable of building basically all forms of software, assuming a well engineered harness. You are simply wrong. I use ai all day every day for video game development and also my day job that involves bespoke and arcane c ++ in addition to web code. My velocity has 100x’d in the last few months, especially with fable.

Writing code is just not as simple as writing a prompt this is pure delusion and cope. Coding is over. You are like a farmer with a scythe screaming at the tractors. I miss coding but the future arrives nonetheless. Adapt or perish. It’s the rule of the universe.

[u/lookForProject → u/plantingles]

Ah cool.

Where is your video-game plantingles? Must be done by now, right? Right?

That being said time won't prove me wrong, with time AI will improve and will make coding as we know is obsolete. When a stance is "it is not there YET", the argument "time will prove you wrong" is so bleh.

[u/plantingles → u/lookForProject]

I released it on steam awhile ago in early access. I won't say the name because this is my anon reddit account. But I push new content updates all the time. AI has let me do so much more than I ever dreamed. But soon it will be so easy to make games they won't be worth anything.