As AI Writes More Code, Learning the Fundamentals Becomes More Valuable
bendee983 · x · 2026-09-03
Developer @bendee983 pushes back against @svpino's claim that reading code is becoming obsolete: the more AI advances at writing and reviewing code, the more valuable it becomes to actually learn coding fundamentals, software engineering, and how machines work. Mastering the hard, non-obvious things most people ignore gives you an edge even when using AI. The quoted @svpino thread argues the industry is repeating the same cycle seen with "writing code is obsolete": within a year or two, manually reading AI-generated code won't be viable as code moves toward "infinite, free automatically generated" output.
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