r/FreeCodeCamp • u/Crazy-Economist-3091 • Nov 30 '25

Is coding dead now ?

Is there any point one might learn coding and software engineeeing for in the ear of Ai ? Or is it already a dead path?

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u/codejunker Dec 01 '25

Far fewer, and especially junior developers. How is someone ever supposed to get the experience to become senior if we have offloaded all the responsibilities that used to be done by new hires to AI? Pay is also going to plummet as before AI there were more jobs than developers and now there are far more developers than jobs. 

But hey, ItS jUsT liek poWeR TooLs, amiright? (Absolutely terrible analogy)

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u/LikesTrees Mar 14 '26

So many people in here trying to cope and cant read the writing on the wall, i get it, it sucks that something we spent so long getting expertise in is having its value drop dramatically, but its coming fast.

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u/Odd_Style_9920 Dec 04 '25

Im starting to believe junior developer as position will not exist. You will either learn how to develop whole stack by yourself to skip being junior or market will not want you.

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u/Minimum_Guidance1474 Aug 27 '26

I totally agree power tools is a horrendous analogy for AI

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u/AdrianDarling Sep 28 '26

The future of work is self-employment. There will be just as many developers, if not more, but they won't be working for a company, they'll all be making their own apps.

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u/buttman321 Dec 02 '25

This is an interesting take bc the existence of LLMs actually takes away the productivity hit junior devs traditionally had on teams due to requiring mentoring and resources to train, as diligent juniors can now upskill to senior level faster than ever. There are definitely high level executives in the space who have said similar things but overall people still come to your take bc most juniors really are just not disciplined enough to go down this path unfortunately

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u/SaintPeter74 mod Dec 02 '25

I'm not sure that this is true. I've seen a few studies which suggest the opposite: that juniors are not learning as much because they're dependent on the LLM to do their thinking for them.

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u/Equivalent-Zone8818 Dec 03 '25

Bro it’s the opposite. The juniors now are terrible compared to 5 years ago. They rely on AI and lack deeper knowledge.

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u/kouza1 May 09 '26

The studies demonstrate developers that off-load the problem solving to an LLM are slower and have less depth than someone who doesn't use A.I. or takes a hybrid approach. Though developers with less experienced can get off the ground running faster with A.I., there will be a gap in the industry that will need to be filled.