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Steve Jobs famously said, "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think." Not sure if it is true, but programming definitely has applicability to other things. Programming is just a list of instructions if you think about it.

AI coding tools are great but they are restricted in what they can do. They still result in incredibly hacky solutions. They still litter your code with security vulnerabilities. And they still fall into loops of trying to do things the hard way, possibly failing, and burning your API tokens. I've been hearing about these problems since people started coding with AI and nothing has improved. You will always need a programmer, especially if you plan on maintaining and updating your code.

Plus AI is a wonderful learning tool. You don't have to scour the internet for a solution to your problem only to find someone who asked the same question, resolved it, and never explained how. You can just ask your AI tool.

I am very skeptical about the AI replacing programmers hype. Sure, there are a lot of AI-coded apps but there were always a lot of apps. Discovery on the app store has been a problem for a while now and I don't really see AI changing things much. It might even result in more programmers as programmers need to come in and fix all this AI slop code.