If you want to really learn it and master it, I'd advise you start with a project to build something you'd like. With that in mind, learn a programming language. JavaScript, CSS and HTML will be a good start for the frontend. You'll then need some backend skills. You could learn MySQL and JavaScript will also help you develop the back end.
Along the way, you'll figure out a lot of the stuff yourself.
Avoid using AI at all costs if you really want to learn. Once you've mastered the skill, AI will be a multiplier.
Good luck
But I would guess that there will be new domains that I don't have in my blocklist and then I need to add them again and I would like to have this as a crowdsourced effort.
This has happened to me a couple of times. Any post you put on hacker news that's critical to AI, gets downvoted. I think hacker news has a vested interest in AI via Altman. The moderators don't like AI being criticized.
I won't be surprised that my this comment gets removed.
It gets heavily criticized, I’ve done it plenty, and I don’t get heavily downvoted when I do. There are posts all the time about people being fed up with the industry in its current state. It is odd this one is being targeted.
I see. It'll be very hard to find. I think hopefully companies will just create an MCP gateway for those who wanna "AI" but leave the sparkly icons out of the UI for everyone else. Let's see!
3. Should students still study computer science? There are misinformed narratives on how AI has replaced the software engineering industry. Sometimes they try to connect AI and Job losses, creating big fears for new graduates and students aspiring to become software engineers. Although many times, this connection is misinformed. AI tools are impressive, but real software engineering involves architecture, security, distributed systems, ethics, and much more. A 4-year degree is also a long time. A lot could have changed.
I’m curious. How are you thinking about AI in your engineering? Is it a useful, a distraction, or a threat to the craft itself? Where do you draw the line?
They're misleading to consumers in general. I used copilot to write one suite of unit tests for a react form last week and it took ~7 hours of iterations to get functioning tests. Compared to writing them by hand in 4.5 it feels like vibe coding is pure hype.
Nobody is basing their AI predictions on Copilot though. That is the issue with all AI skeptics. Claude Code is absurdly good at editing a software project. Copilot like per month fixed cost tools have a lower ceiling since they are cost constrained.
It might also be that part of the job of a programmer is to translate English (or you preferred human language) to a finished product. I have watched management talk to programmers about what they want. I sometimes wonder how things actually get done.
