I seriously cannot take a phrase like:

”Given that now we don’t write code ourselves anymore…”

anymore and it makes me wonder: Did really people enjoying programming by hand extinct? Am I the sole survivor?

I absolutely do know that every single one of use uses LLMs at work given the corporate's policies of shoving them down our throats. But I suppose many of us do that ONLY because they want to pay the bills, not because they believe it is the kind of thing they enjoy doing. Still that true? Anyone still unable to accept that he would might write code by hand anymore? Anyone would still program by hand if they had the choice to do so?

It's not the usual "pick one programming language" question. You can still develop big apps ot such in your favorite language(s), but you must write simple automation scripts in a specific language. It has to be a scripting language, so, say Java is off the list (Though, if you write scripts in Java you have bigger problems). And also, Go doesn't count (controversial, I know, but my post my rules).

For me, I'd honestly pick Python. Bland, but it's easy and scripts don't need to run fast.

everyone on my team is shipping with claude code and i still open files by hand like a caveman. is there a real course for this or do i just watch people on youtube until it clicks. people keep pointing me at udacity, pluralsight and linkedin learning and i have no idea which of those is aimed at somebody who has never run an agent.

I’ve tried learning to code twice now and somehow managed to quit both times. Codecademy in 2022. Then a udemy course in 2023 that is probably still sitting at nineteen percent complete.

The annoying part is that I actually start pretty strong. Eleven days of doing the lessons every day and then work gets busy for a week and the whole thing falls apart.

So for the people who have actually stuck with coding long term, what are the best courses for learning to code when consistency is the bigger problem?

Right now I’m looking at boot dev, freeCodeCamp and the Odin Project. Curious which one people think is easiest to keep coming back to when you inevitably miss a few days.

I'm in my second year of college, and I started learning web dev a few weeks ago. But since AI can code a website within seconds I wonder if the job I'm preparing for will even exist in the next 3-5 years?

I know that knowing html and css wasn't going to get me a job anyways and I'm not worried about that I'm worried about the job availability in this field in general, even backend and stuff.

Maybe AI is not good at it right now but it'll definitely get better in the next 5 years, will the jobs disappear then?

Should I learn something else instead of web dev, from a purely monetary perspective?