"Still learn to code": verifying AI-generated code is the hard part
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-08-21
David Khourshid says he would still tell junior devs to learn coding. The reasoning: generating code is easy, verifying it is hard—you can trust a compiler without reading its output, but agents are nondeterministic and make bad assumptions.
Devs with real coding experience will write better prompts, build better automations, debug faster, and ship better software even when they are no longer the ones typing the code.
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