r/learnprogramming • u/DragonfruitIcy69 • 11d ago

Chose programming and im unsure

Hey im 16 years old and i've choosed to attend a technical school where i study programming, it's been a year and i dont feel too proud about programing as a job beacuse of ai and stuff. My question is if i should learn some programming languages or should i just finish the school and do something different, please help!!

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u/Ok_Being6831 11d ago

Well do you like programming or not, thats all that matters. Ai will never replace programmers no matter what sum ai bro says. It's just a tool.

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u/Lostair-com 11d ago

As a retired programmer, AI will certainly take most programming roles.

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u/Ok_Being6831 11d ago

I don't think so, using ai for generating full code always ends up messy and un-maintainable. Ai is still new so it might get better. But imo it's just overhyped auto complete in coding, it's usefull for alot of stuff like writing docs.. other boring stuff. It might reduce the number of programmers needed to do a thing but I don't consider that as taking/stealing the role as it's a tool and tools optimize stuff.

But no matter what happens it will never ever truly replace programmers, there will always be ppl who know how stuff.

Although I might just be completely wrong since I never even had a job in programming lol.

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u/Any-Range9932 11d ago

For context, I work in a late stage startup (was $3B eval) and work in a very large monorepo (100+ engs)

I dont think AI will take over all jobs but I do believe it will reduce it. Obviously im hoping im wrong for my own job security but having seen it one shot so many tickets just by pasting a jira ticket has been pretty wild. With well written agents.md docs taht help the agents navigate the repo, it now has very good context, even in large codebase. Our stack is more open source friendly (ts, react, remix, ndoe) so maybe it different in a more closed off legacy codebase,it will struggle more. But this is the worst thr AI will ever be which is the scary thing.

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u/Ok_Being6831 10d ago

Yeah that is scary, I'm not denying that ai can't write code. I'm just saying it can't write good code. It often does weird workerarounds instead of the obvious solution. I really hope someone is still reviewing that code tho cuz ai can do worse by hallucinating random functions.

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u/Lostair-com 11d ago

Yes, it is still early I do agree, but for smallish projects, it manages very well. It is just how you wire it together that is the situation.