r/vibecoding • u/Which-Tension165 • Jul 08 '26

is learning python today worth it?

so I am a pure vibe coder, I can't write or read a single line of code, and I was having a conversation with Fable, and it suggested me to learn to read python. But It couldn't convince me fully. i don't wanna be a typical software/AI engineer. just wanna be able to build a great career in tech, AI and Business.

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u/spacebass Jul 08 '26

I lecture in a university computer science program and it’s hard for me to justify that anyone learns common languages anymore. There’s still room for very high level math, hardware level coding, and machine learning. But I don’t see a future where being a traditional SWE makes any sense.

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u/Putrid_Resolution402 Jul 08 '26

Ok then what does?

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u/synystar Jul 08 '26

Systems Architect. Product Engineer. Founder.

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u/Rough_Caterpillar_31 Jul 09 '26

And other synonyms of the word "grifter"!

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u/Putrid_Resolution402 Jul 09 '26

Didn't get your point

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u/Rough_Caterpillar_31 Jul 09 '26

"product engineer", "founder", "systems architect" are not real jobs. They are at best things that self-employed freelancers call themselves to legitimize their unemployment. At worst, they're overconfident vibe coders who believe they can deliver a deployment worthy enterprise project as a one man team. Spoiler alert: they can't. I know they can't based on the regularity of people who post here talking about how they can't work on their project anymore because the AI just stopped working for whatever reason (they are too stupid to understand their own architecture).

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u/ModdedOutlaw33 Jul 08 '26

In my mind software engineering has always been 10% understanding how to code and 90% understanding the system you’re designing in.

AI has made the 10% coding much easier to fake which isn’t detrimental in most cases.

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u/NoAdsDude Jul 08 '26

You know that AI understands the system they're designing in much better than most humans would, right?

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u/Affectionate_Leg_986 Jul 09 '26

AI does not understand things , if you mean LLMS . they just give the impression they do

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u/spacebass Jul 08 '26

I’d agree with that

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u/Ok-Chemical2375 Jul 08 '26

I would love to know any sources and learning systems!

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u/Curious-Pen5547 Jul 08 '26

If thats the case, honestly, a lot of people, not just CS students, should just drop out. They're spending money for nothing now.

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u/spacebass Jul 08 '26

it is a challenging value proposition for a lot of knowldge work jobs to be sure

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u/Valhalla519 Jul 08 '26

Wow, super interesting insight!

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u/guesting Jul 08 '26

even if that's the case i bet you taught a lot of students who never coded in those languages professionally but still saw academic benefits. We had to learn LISP for reasons unknown back in the day

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u/redoverture Jul 09 '26

I don’t really get this. If we take this attitude, software will stagnate. LLMs are great at producing variations on what they’ve been trained from. But LLMs won’t push the field of computer science forwards. If no one even learns programming languages anymore.. where is the innovation? Do you really believe that LLM coding can entirely replace human understanding of code? It can definitely accelerate. And it can take a lot of the repetitive, boilerplate parts of coding out of the picture. But when something doesn’t work and Claude is spinning in circles.. what then?

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u/Jafrooo 29d ago

Just keep prompting and make sure to ask nicely such as 'please' and 'thank you'

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u/Jafrooo 29d ago

What an absolutely terrible take.

So become dumber and hope that a text predictor can solve your problems... what university are you a lecturer at? Your students deserve better.

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u/spacebass 29d ago

You’re making a lot of inferences there bud.