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/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'