[spiderice]

To each their own, of course. But

> what was the point of it all if i didn’t learn a thing?

Money. Freedom. Supporting a family. Doing things faster. Keeping up with changing times. etc..

There are a ton of different answers, and it depends on your goals.

> coding isn’t about the finished product

Again, to each their own.

[prophesi]

> what was the point of it all if i didn’t learn a thing?

As a senior software engineer, AI still surprises me with concepts I didn't know about from time to time. I think spending the time to grok the code it generates is about as invaluable as the code's functionality.

As in the past, however, nothing's stopping people from copy-pasting code found online and never improving their internal toolkit. AI will not only uphold that status quo, but amplify it exponentially.

[ToucanLoucan]

> As a senior software engineer, AI still surprises me with concepts I didn't know about from time to time.

Example?

[prophesi]

There are ample opportunities to learn more about software development regardless of experience. It's a bit of an n+1 problem. If you're just building CRUD apps, I can understand how one might plateau in their knowledge, but even that can have a broad scope.

But for a recent example, I learned to stop worrying and love macros in Elixir. Even `defmodule` and `def/defp` are themselves macros.

[oriolid]

How much did you get paid for this comment? And if not, why was it worth writing?

[bigstrat2003]

OP didn't say money is the only reason things are worth doing, he said that things can be worth doing solely for money. There's a big difference between the two.

[oriolid]

To each their own.

[lcnPylGDnU4H9OF]

This doesn't really make your point more coherent. Would you mind spelling it out?