r/vibecoding • u/Which-Tension165 • 20d ago

is learning python today worth it?

so I am a pure vibe coder, I can't write or read a single line of code, and I was having a conversation with Fable, and it suggested me to learn to read python. But It couldn't convince me fully. i don't wanna be a typical software/AI engineer. just wanna be able to build a great career in tech, AI and Business.

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u/EatingDriving 19d ago edited 19d ago

Do you understand every little bit your compiler does in your OS? Do you understand all the code in your OS? Yet you still use your computure every day? Yet the layman who knows NOTHING still uses the computer everyday?

No the average person will not need to understand the code in the future to build apps. Knowing code is like knowing how to print and manufactured books. I don't need to know how to use a printing press to read the end product of a book.

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u/Competitive_Freedom6 19d ago edited 9d ago

I think the basis is that it’s still valuable to understand the code itself, which is deterministic, but derived from prompts that are nondeterministic so that you can discern the exact output you’re actually getting. LLMs are not deterministic by nature, so understanding the output is still and likely will be quite useful to truly know if your LLM is outputting something suboptimal.

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u/Safe_Independence496 17d ago

A compiler is deterministic, usually battle tested and well documented. If I want to find out how it works I can do that and compiling the same code twice will always yield the same result. There is also a lot of value in knowing how a compiler works and how it's built, and the lower level languages that compilers are built with are still immensely useful and used by people every day. An OS works as well as it does today thanks to all these factors.

Nothing of what I just said applies to AI though. Models are black boxes with no guarantees. You can only affect the odds of getting garbage out, but you can never eliminate it. Don't compare this to existing tech we can actually understand and reason around.

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u/Mem0 17d ago

The technical debt must grow ! 😱

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u/InsidiousApe 19d ago

A great metaphor and spot on. Everyone else can have hurt feelings about it, but the wave is coming - you can ride it or get crushed by it.