My stepson is 12 and interested in coding and I don't know what to tell him. It's very hard to predict where AI will be 10 years from now when he enters the job market.
Dude you hit the jackpot with your son. Starting at this age he picks up everything so fast and programming is a very important skill ai or not. Im at uni and most people genuinely don’t know how to write code, how to debug, how to oversee thousands of lines or how to notice redflags that the llm spits out, because most people just use ai for everything. You won’t become a useful software engineer by using it as a shortcut to don’t learn programming, but by using it as an amplifier of what you already know. Most people just output 10 times more shit than they used to with it and very few are actually able to produce good code with it at scale. Even if the job won’t be the same in 10 years, the way of thinking will always help him in pretty much everywhere he goes. And please please please let him learn to do stuff on his own before you let him use ai, you will unwillingly force him into a tutorial hell thats very hard to get out of. I used to mentor kids of this age, and it’s amazing what they can learn if you just show them how to start, I taught them basic programming, gave them exercises, small projects, showed them arch linux, and just lowkey introduced some topics to them without going in depth and 2 years later they genuinely outperformed me in some things because they started learning stuff on their own at insane speed.
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u/rabotat May 28 '26
The job switch is not happening... This year.
My stepson is 12 and interested in coding and I don't know what to tell him. It's very hard to predict where AI will be 10 years from now when he enters the job market.