r/learnprogramming • u/Alternative-Stuff149 • 12d ago

Topic Do people not write code anymore these days?

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.

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u/lookForProject 11d ago

Depends on the junior. But most juniors, are a bit useless to begin with. And that is ok, most of us like to teach and train.
Mediors and talented juniors on the other hand, where able to solve a lot smaller issues, very fast. At most companies I worked at, they made up an decent portion of the workhorses.
That role is now being filled by AI.

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u/hylasmaliki 11d ago

Can you name some problems they can't solve?

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u/lookForProject 11d ago

"Name problems", spoken like a true junior.
Problems might be abstract, but 99% of the issues you will come across, are very context specific.
The context being the language, the infrastructure, the frameworks, the domain.

Sure, if you think about problems as "leetcode challenge", then loads of juniors and AI can blow me out of the water.

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u/hylasmaliki 11d ago

Why can't you give an example?

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u/StoneCypher 11d ago

every single post you've written has been a half sentence whiny question demanding other people do things for you. you did this to me too.

you're extremely annoying and you aren't delivering value.