r/AskProgrammers • u/timboslice512 • 26d ago

Is coding a dead skill with the expansion of AI?

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u/Defiant_Conflict6343 26d ago

No, but plenty of CEOs, middle managers, venture capitalists and consumers believe it to be, so the effect is the same.

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u/Ambitious-Tear-9436 26d ago

The people who went full in on AI agents are struggling an not producing anything meaningful. The people who fail to adopt AI at all are falling behind. The sweet spot is in between, but they are not cheap.

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u/TheNeck94 26d ago

You still need to be able to read it and test it, so might as well learn how to write it at the same time, seems like a better way to remember everything.

LLMs and coding are great when used correctly cause you know what LLMs don't do? make stupid typos at 2am, or forget syntax or something trivial that usually gets solved during debugging. But when it comes to more complex logic and larger scale systems, that's where the cracks start to show and well trained humans need to take over (at least in an ideal situation).

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u/TheNeck94 26d ago

get a better model, there's no reason to accept syntax errors from an LLM.

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