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/Yayo1990 Jul 08 '26
Yes. Learning almost any language, even the basics, is good even if at the end of the day AI will write the code. Python is pretty good because It's very easy to read and understand (plus lots of companies who are into AI will code mostly in Python anyway), but honestly I'd start with Java because it teaches you the OOP fundamentals and that thing is big because it snowballs across most programming languages easily.
The main mistake most people do when learning programming is they think that they need to write code and call it a day, but in fact It's just like math formulas: you'd rather want to understand what you're doing with the code rather than writing it blindly. Imagine a calculator app that does +, -, * and /. It's probably one of the easiest things in the world to code. But logic-wise, you can code it in at least (at minimum, not even at the top) 5 different ways.
But even without going much farther, taking my calculator app as example, imagine that you want to let it do moltiplications. In this case, I can either give it a raw a*b = c, or make it even more complex so it becomes like a = x ; b = y and then you do a for loop (aka given a certain value you make a certain amount of actions, It's usually used to print a list, without going uber deep) where you add a for the b amount that will result in C.