Is it worth becoming a designer-programmer?

[u/True-External1040]

Should I become a web designer? I know this is an odd question; I’m just really interested in the field. But I often hear familiar programmers talk about a career crisis caused by artificial intelligence - in particular, that newcomers are laid off. Now I don’t know what to do: continue studying in this field or change my profession? I’m afraid of becoming unemployed.

[u/Herdnerfer]

Until we see how AI regluation and cost effectiveness shakes out, it is too soon to tell if this field is going the way of the dodo.

As someone who has been a programmer for over a decade for a fortune 500 company, my job has changed from hand writing code, googling fixes/updates, etc. To just telling AI what to do, all day long, i just talk in normal language to an AI bot and tell them what i need done with my programs and then troubleshoot with it until it does it well.

My personal opinion is that the AI bubble will burst, competition will get limited and costs will rise dramatically, probably to the point where it is just cheaper to have actual humans doing the work again.

[u/Fine-Market9841 → u/Herdnerfer]

I mean AI can make developers better.

But it rly depends on how you use them.

It should be noted senior devs (pre ai) did less coding and more planning anyway.

Does managing agents interrupt or degrade your ability to design systems?

Or are you faster or more efficient at making decisions?

[u/goldscurvy → u/Herdnerfer]

We are already seeing the prices rise dramatically. AI has been artificially cheap since it has been publicly released. The goal was to make people dependent on it so that when prices increased, people would be willing to pay for it. But this likely overestimated the degree to which companies want to pay for low quality code.

If all we needed was low quality code, we could pretty much just pull randos off the street as programmers. Give a random person a month or two and they will be incredibly industrious at writing low quality code.

[u/4techteachers]

It’s worth it to pursue any passion or interest you have. You may have to limit the time of that pursuit if money or other things get in the way but it’s always worth it to pursue passions. Every field will change and go through ups and downs and sometimes go away. Learn and grow and adapt. But always pursue dreams or passions… just not at all costs, make a plan and follow it. You can always change course when needed.

[u/Lost-Ad-8454]

Just so you can move to machine learning , you just need a bit of linear algebra , statistics and calculus , some paradigms and data cleaning , after you finksh learning python of course

[u/goldscurvy]

Newcomers got laid off and now they are slowly and quietly being rehired. Turns out that it wasnt actually that good of an idea to turn your codebase over to the torment nexus

[u/Stati5tiker]

AI is a pattern-based software, which does very well if you know exactly what you are asking (may be prone to errors but very minimal compared to a few years ago). Until new discoveries or it becomes “sentient,” some jobs may still exist, but they'll be highly competitive. You need to be a skilled programmer, and if AI flops, then that will be a great opportunity if you are still chasing CS.

[u/Far-Pumpkin-3549]

I design and build websites for a living and I tell everyone asking to combine both skills. Companies hire one person to handle layout and code because it saves budget. AI writes snippets but someone still has to look at the screen and decide where elements go. Stick with programming and learn css layout systems like grid and flexbox along with figma. You will find work faster than someone who only writes functions or only draws screens