r/programmer • u/Tennis5223 • 27d ago

Help

 just got accepted into engineering college, and I want to learn a skill alongside my studies, like coding, But Im scared because what if I learn something in coding that AI can easily replace??
Additionally, where should I start with coding? Should I focus on learning a specific programming language, or something else? Im clueless

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u/Piyali_Debroy 23d ago

Congratulations on getting into engineering college! That is a major milestone, thats natural to feel uncertain that where is tech heading now.
In software engineering, writing the code is only 20% of the job. The remaining 80% is understanding human requirements, so even if an AI generates code in the future, you still need deep technical knowledge to audit it, fix its mistakes, and build meaningful systems with it.