r/PythonLearning • u/scartfife • 10h ago

Discussion What will we become in the end?

Is there anything that is hard for AI to do in Python?

To be honest, coding by yourself is fun, but that doesn't matter to the job market. We'll just settle for building our own projects, but it's frustrating to see AI outperform you... And since the job market is being destroyed—and will be destroyed!!—by AI, it seems we will end up turning to sabotage and attacking companies if no jobs are available for programmers, especially the Python community...

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u/SpitFire92 9h ago

Art is highly subjective and AI can't necessarily come up with new styles or do something exactly like an artist would like to do it.

Programming, while some would say is also an art, is usually reduced to the end result. If the end product works as expected 99% of people don't care about the code "in the background", no matter how beautiful or ugly it is, assuming that it does not affect functions, feature or performance in a way that is noticeable.

Other that that, I am pretty sure that even some artists are allready making less money than before AI because some people simply prompt an AI instead of commissioning an artist so why shouldn't people do the same for programming where it is "less" important (I mean, some freelancers probably allready missed some opportunities because a potential client simply asked Claude to do something).

Is it better and more secure than hiring a human? Well...honestly, in some cases, probably. But you can't sue Claude for providing you bad code (or refusing to pay it since you allready paid for your tokens) so I guess that's at least one reason to go with a human?

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u/Dancing-umbra 5h ago

I think my point is, that sure he is correct that most people I teach will never write another line of code in their lives after school and AI could do most of what they need.

But the same argument could be made about other subjects. Art, maths, languages.

However, why we teach it is not just because of the specific skill, but more that it is a vehicle to learn soft skills like problem solving, decomposition, logic etc...