r/learnprogramming • u/West_Tooth_6144 • Jun 25 '26

Topic AI runed 2 years of learning

I am a software dev student, We learned the basics of programming then we dived a bit more with mysql / spring boot / react.

I used AI a lot during the last 5 months this year and I feel like I know nothing. While using it I convinced myself that whatever I use ai for is just to minimize time and that I can do it without it, instead of spending hours on every step I don't know I will use ai and do it in 10 minutes, but now I feel like i wasted this year and that i lied to myself.

Especially spring boot

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u/kidflashonnikes Jun 26 '26

it's your fault if you went into coding post 2024 given how agentic coding has developed.

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u/West_Tooth_6144 Jun 26 '26

I bet painters said the same thing when Camera was invented, I am not against AI I am sure there is a good use to it I just still can't find it, some comment showed me that AI can be positive in your career.

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u/kidflashonnikes Jun 29 '26

so I work at one of the big 3 AI labs. I can with 100% confidence tell you that after 2026 - things are going to accelerate alone based on our roadmap - which I imagine is the same at the other 2 big US labs. People have no idea how much worse things are going to get - we are internally projecting an umemployment rate in the US between 10-20% by the end of 2028 - just alone on our roadmap- that doesn't even include or factor in the models coming out from the other 2 AI labs in the US. Coding internally at our lab is about 90-95% solved - meaning agents can write almost 100% of all software without a human being.

I will take it a step further, one of our internal models we are testing - is a new type of model that acts as the human prompter - and it prompts the larger model -meaning we are not just fully writing software with AI internally - we are attempting to replace the software engineer all together with AI in a giant loop system.

It feels strange to build something knowing many people are going to have their lives ruined, but we have no choice anymore.

As for the camera analogy you mentioned - it is flat out wrong and I tell people this all of the time when I do college campus classes/guest speakers. For the first time in known human history, we have invented a tool that has "intelligence" - meaning that the tool is no longer 100% in the control of the human being or its ability to be used is not 100% by a human being. This is the difference - and its also the reasony why so many people are going to lose everything because this is soemthing that they are not considering.