Is it still worth it to learn to code? (I think so)

I try to answer the question in this video of "Will I still be able to get paid with the skills I'm learning while I learn to code?". It's a new style of video for me, so let me know what you think. I hope it was enjoyable for you.

Also, if you like videos with zero cuts, fun presentation and low stim, feel free to leave a like haha and subscribe of course! ;)

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[DidiBear]

Man, this is refreshing to have a great explanation without dozens of cuts in the video.

[KaranRavindra]

i love how professional this is compared to prime lmao

[farqueueman]

I get paid to code but even if all of it was automated away, I'd still code cause it's enjoyable ❤

[lifelover]

15 minutes of wisdom and empathy. A much needed balanced approach, thank you TJ :)

[niza.toshpulatov]

I really like the "problem solving" and "solution copying" comparison. At my previous job, the former brought joy and excitement to my work. The latter however, made my work feel hollow and led to decrease of my productivity. So even when I was tasked to "copy a solution", I would always turn it into problem solving. This would at times lead to higher cost of resources, but I just wanted to have fun :D

[martinocrespoalvarez]

These times need more constructive, thought-provoking, human, funny, and brilliant engineers like you. A big thank you for your amazing speech and ideas.

[Muaahaa]

All I know is that I'm going to code until the robots pry the keyboard from my cold dead hands.

[thisbridgehascables]

As a developer for longer than most .. I love digesting other programming languages and learning things I might not really ever use for a paid job. I enjoy learning what makes all this stuff work in regards to server hosting, repositories, docker containers, neovim, lua, go, php, js.. etc and within all this learning I get as frustrated as a newbie..

Sure my experience does provide me the ability to logically see similarities between these stacks and build quickly or grasp something faster.

Any every level there is a learning curve.

With all the talk of AI, people are forgetting why they got into coding for wanting build something fun. There’s honing to be technical advancement that might even make AI useless. Think about if Quantum Computers can be miniaturized down to a smart watch size, the computing power and core functionality might just be faster than AI. There’s tons of software solutions unimaginable because we haven’t been shown the next challenge.. I doubt AI will just magically evolve and construct solutions for something beyond our grasp of the universe..

AI will be dependent on use to imagine the impossible first..

[sebastianmangelsen]

Great summary TJ, I've enjoyed listening to it and it might keep my thinking busy for the next couple of days. Interesting conclusion...

[LokeshKrishna]

As someone who's had this thought in the back of their head, this was a very inspiring watch

[myam]

The whitepill about this AI hype is that the people that got into coding solely for money are just gonna move on to the next gold rush.

Programming is once again for genuine tinkerers/problem solvers!

[carloscorrea]

First i start getting in my feed this guy with a mustache screaming at the camera (Prime) then, a video of this other guy with a mustache as well talking about frontend development appear (Theo), lastly i dont know how, this guy named tj who i though do pretty interesting things ended up being friend of prime, and now, i watch all these guys creating good content and giving some really good advices, thank you

[Lorofol]

13:58 "I'm just a regular mortal, I put my pants on two legs at a time"
Love it teej

[ilyab.]

I have worked for a huge top company before and let me tell you they used to lay off thousands of people just to be more efficient on a basis that is much much smaller than an AI revolution. When AI will become perfect in solving code, I am 100% certain they will have no issue whatsoever to lay off 99% of the software developers.

[davidcooper]

I just started learning web development a few years ago but I have been working as a mechanical engineer for around 15 years. Just lately I started doing things for other people and noticed the huge overlap in the two fields. Problem-solving starts with problem definition (requirement definition). Also communication is hugely important in just about everything.

[ThePandaGuitar]

"Everything besides C will still be legal" now I have a strong urge to write C

[JonLikesStats]

Couldn't agree more. I came to coding through science. I chose to focus on it because I realized how grossly inefficient a lot of our work is. I'm just now learning what merged sort is, yet I'm viewed as a programming expert because I learned to fix real world problems. If there's a point where you should stop learning code concepts, I haven't found it yet.

[acerebralstringmorn]

Really great, well formulated message! Hats off to you!

[eiker]

The pacman Joke caught be off guard, love it ❤

[tjex]

A really well put together presentation, thanks!