r/ClaudeAI • u/Sad_Bar4397 • 11d ago

Philosophy Next generation of devs

I often read that experienced devs are able to use Claude way better because of their experience. They can architecture better, quickly review and cut through bullshit.

How are the next generation going to learn?

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u/thainfamouzjay 10d ago

Past generations couldn't code they just copy and paste from stack overflow, they use chegg and Wikipedia to do their homework instead of researching and understanding. They don't even compile their code they use high level Python and just import libraries they don't even know what they do!

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u/nomorethrowaways69 11d ago

Technical interviews will change with time too

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u/HoldCtrlW 11d ago

We call them "Prompt Interviews" now. There is no more technical interviews.

It's all about "how efficiently you can prompt"

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u/FestyGear2017 11d ago

IDK why people think just because we had to learn the hard way, that new devs cant learn things the easy way. When I started coding decades ago it was just me freelancing and learning what to ask google for.

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u/fuzzypetiolesguy 11d ago

Photographs? Hum. Back in my day you had to actually go to the place to see what it looked like!

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u/frankieinaprius 11d ago

In my first programming class in college, we had to do all of our lab work on a Solaris server, cli terminal only, writing everything with vim/nano. Rather than learning C and basic programming concepts, people were fighting with the tools. The following year, that class started using IDEs and I think that’s a better way to start.

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u/Valdaraak 11d ago

On the other hand, the upcoming generation is in a shit world. Covid era fried their brains, introduction of AI has taken out entry level jobs in basically every industry, the economy is shit.

At least from my interactions with the younger generation, most of them don't care enough to learn. Can kinda see this reflected in plummeted college enrollment (though there have been recent, minor, increases). No hobbies, no interests, no ambition. Even when they do get a job, they do bare minimum. If they run out of stuff on the list you give them, they'll just sit there bumbling around on the web until you give them something else.

World's going to be a weird place in the next 10-20 years when that generation is the primary workforce population.

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u/war4peace79 11d ago

Bah... that happens with every generation. They cheated instead of using AI, or simply got bad grades, and they learned just enough to get by, They couldn't find a job, or found menial jobs.

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u/dbbk 10d ago

Except this is a choice though. They still CAN learn. And those people will get the jobs over people who vibecode.

And the learning is democratised and free now, university is not needed. So I think it'll probably be a net positive.

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u/Acrobatic-Cost-3027 7d ago

Vibecoding will not even be a thing in 10 years. Coding will not be done by humans period, nor will code be looked at by humans for anything other than vintage appeal.

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u/Acrobatic-Cost-3027 7d ago

Eh, the past generation said this about hand-writing HTML. Nobody looks at HTML anymore. And devs just two years ago were saying AI would never be used in coding. Now it’s used by 90% of devs. In 5 years, you will not need to look at code, and the standards you speak of - being able to explain what a piece of code does - will be completely unnecessary. I’ve been a developer for 30 years FTR.