What to learn in the AI coding era: the bottleneck moved from writing to verifying code
irombie · x · 2026-10-28
Developer irombie answers a common question: what should you learn now that AI codes so well? His advice: read code, debug code, and think in tests. His core take is that the bottleneck has shifted from writing code to verifying it, so that's where learning effort should go.
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