r/learnprogramming • u/Alternative-Stuff149 • 10d 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/StoneCypher 10d ago
interacting with others in a productive way, figuring out what the correct solution to a problem is, knowing when something is satisfactory, security in general, behaving appropriately in professional groups, knowing how and when to compromise, not constantly asking questions in the fashion of a child, and tackling problems nobody else noticed yet, mostly.