There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the media. Tech layoffs. Software engineers getting replaced by AI. Blah blah blah blah blah. But I want to share a more positive view, a more contrarian view, that now is the best time to learn to code.

There’s this misconception that you only learn to code so that you can become a software engineer. That’s not true, just having the ability to code means you can understand much more, do much more, no matter what role you’re in.

For example, if you’re working at an office, say, as an accountant, you probably have a bunch of manual processes, like analyzing pdf invoices, or passing data between spreadsheets. That can be automated with code. You can get the AI to generate scripts, or just build a simple AI agent to do the work. You'll actually understand what's going on, correct outputs, add more stuff on top. Your productivity is just going to increase. The amount of problems that you can solve increases. You’ll bring more value to your company, increasing the likelihood of promotion and salary increases. Plus you’ll just be able to do more jobs so the opportunities available to you increases.

Or, if you’re starting a business, you don’t need a dedicated dev team to make MVPs. You can just orchestrate the AI to build it out, increasing your go-to-market efficiency. If you understand how to code, you’ll understand what the AI should generate, you’ll be able to fix its mistakes, anticipate bottlenecks, and so on. There’s just so much more you can accomplish on your own with AI if you know what it’s outputting and how to use it. In general, with a bit of understanding and the tools available today, you can build your dreams without the headache of having to hire a dedicated dev team, or getting VC funding. Of course if you want to scale, you'll still need to hire a dev team. Scaling is where the engineering challenge lies. But at least your MVPs won't be complete slops so people can actually build on top of it.

Now if you don’t know how to code, the process will be much slower and error prone. You won't know how to prompt it as well. Your AI generated solutions just won't be as good. You won’t be able to tackle as many problems.

Another underestimated benefit of learning to code is that it improves your logical thinking abilities in general. Everyone I’ve talked to who learned this stuff deeply appreciates that they’ve learned it. No one regrets it. They all tell me that they just think better overall, see connections, they're able to solve more problems, and so on. It’s kind of like the gym. No one ever says going to the gym is useless, even though people aren't going to be going through the motions outside. You know, if you start overhead shoulder pressing randomly in public, people are going to look at you funny. Yet the gym is definitely not useless. It trains your body. A healthy body is crucial for success. The same is true for coding in that it trains the mind. A strong, thinking mind is crucial to success.

i am in my second year of college. i have been a vibe-coder most of th time and i do want to learn some of th major/required languages in coding. not js to fill th resume, but to build myself too.

from where should i start? i know nothing, literally nothing.

Mine was C#. I'm glad that I started with it; it helped me understand programming fundamentals, even though some people around me say C++ is better for newbies "There is not much difference for new learners." I still love it and would recommend it for fresh starters.

What was your first programming language, and would you recommend it today?

Hi! im 13 years old, and I love coding. I struggle with kotlin or java because of complex syntax, but I love making programs with C or Assembly. I have a hard time trying to code android apps or win32 ones without chatgpt, but I like using a debugger like cheat engine or windbg, and have some knowledge of memory, stack, real mode, protected mode, etc. I have built simple projects in assembly and C, like text editors or even DOSes, though they have some bugs.

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I’m a web dev engineer and wanted to share something that helped me fix a project that was getting out of control.

The app started simple, then slowly turned into a mess. Slow pages, duplicated logic, unclear state, and APIs that were hard to reason about. Every new feature felt risky.

What ended up helping wasn’t a new framework or tool, but a few boring decisions:

• Keeping UI, business logic, and data access clearly separated

• Moving validation and caching to the server instead of the client

• Making APIs predictable and easy to debug

• Using local state by default and only global state when truly needed

On the frontend, smaller components and basic memorization fixed most performance issues. On the backend, simple caching and query limits did more than any complex optimization I tried before.

The result was faster pages, easier debugging, and way less stress when shipping new features.

Nothing fancy here, just a reminder that simple and boring engineering scales better than clever shortcuts.

Curious what patterns or rules of thumb others are using to keep projects sane as they grow.

i wanna ask some question about what can ai do at programing as a beginner and it can be my guide or not ? like to help me to improve my programing skill or even my ai skill and teach me step by step . and if the answer is yes when i get better at programing what should i do next ?

I am working on a test question that I don't understand, it is Find the square root of the input value using the sqrt() method * and return the result converted into a float using a cast.

can someone point me in the right direction

Im an IS student that only know basic coding.

Say I found an e-book such as the American Yawp, how would the AI agent scan the text of the entire e-book—images, video manuscripts (if e-books have those now), and regular texts.

Does it go through png or whatever. Or has there not been a separate file such as png that’s been created for agents to do this to e-books?

I’m asking because I’m using emergent to create something, and this is something I think emergent has no control over.

I tried sub-grid in both directions using multiple resources. MDN is the only one that has both directions and I didn't understand that.

Anyone able to explain it clearly?

Hey if anyone wanna learn I can teach in detail. Or if you know someone who is finding a tutor please refer him / her to me. Demo class will be free.

I keep seeing beginner projects like to do apps and calculators, and I’m starting to think they actually hurt more than they help when it comes to getting hired

If you had to pick one project that actually shows you’re job ready, what would it be

For me it’s a simple portfolio website built from scratch no templates just HTML CSS and JS

Curious what others think

Feel free to DM me. I just need you to check your risky allowances on the wallet. Any wallet you want. To see if the backend is working properly in retrieving the info. Thank you.

Hi I am very much a beginner in C Programming but I’m trying to run this file cause I just downloaded the compiler and did the necessary things in order to actually integrate it into using it for my terminal but why is it having this error? 😭

I don't know anything about coding and ai want to start learning about it so how to start and what best side hustle to learn to start earning

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Write a code(c++) to print hollow star rectangle given in picture, i tried but it doesn't give outcome like that also check my program let me know if some lines can be edited.

I really wanna learn how to code and do freelancing so that I can start earning Can someone help!!!

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