I’ll go against the grain here: I’m not worried. If you actually care about what you do, even vibe coding can teach you something, it could be a starting point. The internet is not going away, and just looking up this or that thing the AI spit out will help you learn what you’re working with.
Is it the same as an uni CS course? No of course, but how many of us got our start just tinkering with stuff we didn’t understand?
While I agree with you, the unfortunate trend of common folks is to take the easiest path to accomplish their goal.
If that means using a tool they don’t understand to achieve a solution instead of being forced to learn from tinkering, I think most people will opt for that route.
They won’t take that extra step to comprehend what the AI spits out.
Those kind of people would have behaved the same anyway, copy pasting from the internet or wasting others’ time some different way.
I guess we could argue whether giving them AI will act as a multiplier for their damage output or will reduce it because the AI will be savvier than them, but personally I don’t see things changing much.
I’ll go against the grain here: I’m not worried. If you actually care about what you do, even vibe coding can teach you something, it could be a starting point. The internet is not going away, and just looking up this or that thing the AI spit out will help you learn what you’re working with.
Is it the same as an uni CS course? No of course, but how many of us got our start just tinkering with stuff we didn’t understand?
If I wanted to ask for the same things nine times and spend the rest of the day reading code that sort of works, I’ll DM my staff engineer.
While I agree with you, the unfortunate trend of common folks is to take the easiest path to accomplish their goal.
If that means using a tool they don’t understand to achieve a solution instead of being forced to learn from tinkering, I think most people will opt for that route.
They won’t take that extra step to comprehend what the AI spits out.
Those kind of people would have behaved the same anyway, copy pasting from the internet or wasting others’ time some different way.
I guess we could argue whether giving them AI will act as a multiplier for their damage output or will reduce it because the AI will be savvier than them, but personally I don’t see things changing much.