| > Of course, the topic on everyone’s mind was AI. Some against their will. > In a world where all coding is agentic, and where we are asking the agents to produce Rust, we might ask a deep and more disturbing question: Why learn Python at all? What’s the point of learning a programming language that an increasingly small group of people will be writing and using? All the same structure everywhere. - Now with the AI - (Not the future; the present) - Everything is changing - But colon points to potential problem: You’re worried about the future of Python. But not programming? Be a part of the problem or the solution. But no, the author will say, one can’t stop a tsunami. > Python has a future. But in a world of agentic coding, it might be increasingly for teaching the basics of software engineering and providing AI with high-quality training data, rather than for direct coding of applications. It’s still worth learning and knowing Python — but it’s also worth doubling down on basic software-engineering principles, which we’ll increasingly be using to instruct and judge AI agents. Remember to mention AI Era, Agentic Era, or some other statement that is on the one hand completely obvious in the author’s mind but bears repeating like a mantra. Yeah Python will be used to teach arithmetic before we spend the rest of our lives with a calculator. The conclusion is as banal as all the other fluff thought pieces. |