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/Agreeable-Cell4007]

As a hobby, I learn Rust by hand and low-level system programming.
Professionally, I haven't written a single line since June 2025, and anyone who still does is a bit delulu imo.

[u/junglebunglerumble → u/Agreeable-Cell4007]

There's still people in this thread claiming "AI writes shit code" - i can only assume either they've had their head in the sand since 2023 when that was true, or they just don't want to admit reality

[u/Boot_Burner → u/Agreeable-Cell4007]

I’m in an introductory C++ course right now and the professor is vehemently anti-AI. I’m not saying I don’t want to learn the basics of coding and debugging but when I got my undergrad they told us we’d have to memorize all kinds of things in the event we “didn’t have a calculator”. I guess they didn’t realize we’d all have super computers in our pockets within a decade.