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Thank you for the response, I have a few questions that I would like to ask now as well which jumped on top of my head which I would like to ask though to get more clarity at the same time.

What is the exact learning of the topic that I have to do in it, for example. I can (and I will) learn webdev about valuable if vibecoding becomes the norm (as it is becoming nowadays)

Now I will learn the basics, then intermediate, then expert. Where exactly do you think that the value lies in?

ie. are the advantages put within getting from beginner -> intermediate or to complete beginner -> intermediate -> expert

Another thing is the level of fields that you have to be in or the whole question could perhaps be framed as being the jack of all trades or the master of one? Is this going to be like typing speed [90 wpm vs 130 wpm is somewhat negligible effect] or like chess [ 2100 vs 2400 isn't negligible and becomes exponentially harder when you become expert yet the difference will have genuine real impact maybe?]

Also within the process of vibe-coding, what is the actual value that I am adding given that I have learnt the skill, what I think might be is that I can actually verify if its good or not instead of asking a chatbot [which might be sycophantic or might miss the devil in the details], and say its okay.

Also, how do people naturally move away from the natural tendency to just... not read what AI is saying (when I tried obra/superpowers etc.), this video[0] tries to showcase what I am suggesting perhaps but I feel as if its still quite a slippery slope.

I hope that this question can be taken in good faith (because I like learning about CS for the sake of learning itself) but aside from that, why learn HTML/CSS is still a question that I can perhaps ask, similar to why learn assembly[1], and to what level, and will it help me in getting a job and if that helps in what I will actually do in job, and if so, then how? if the job done via vibe-coding as well. [I think this might tie to the previous questions that I have asked]

I do agree with the overall premise and learning can't be passive granted. Learning requires some form of active involvement which includes the phase of struggle (I think), yet that struggle is done for something meaningfully better and has a purpose. What AI does to many is question that purpose, why learn?

The issue I find which is why I am coming to this again and again is this, I am unable to find how the improvement within this corresponds to actual work/job or in actual terms how so.

Also, what happens if suppose the difference between an expert person with extreme knowledge and a normal~ish person is that it might take normal person is some more time/prompt/tokens to debug the issue with the models itself. Like it might take 2-3 more prompts to fix the issue.

I am finding people with varying opinions on how even the most expert people on some topic are agreeing that most AI can do it good enough already with vibe-coding, whereas some generalists who might not know the other language are porting their projects in it with vibe-coding.

In general, when approaching learning as well, I am not sure which to approach first: the thing which might be approachable (so for example: after HTML/CSS/Js Python, Django [thanks @simonw], golang's complicated full stack application)

and what if I might not like JS so much and python only enough but golang the most ideologically but my skill level still matches mostly python and its what I am most proficient in writing by hand?

I am personally going to go the learning path (the hard way?), I don't know if its the hard way or not but I wish to learn programming quite deeply even if just for the sake of itself and making my brain think about problems better

but my mind does still wonder if people on the other side could be right as well, does everyone need to learn deep ends of programming if programming becomes simpler or operates via just words, similar to how in previous times we used to have a lift operator and now we have all become a lift operator with the press of a button.

My opinion on vibe-coding has been this for quite sometime now: I do vibe-coding not for learning but for if/when the end results/prototypes matter more than the process but I absolutely DO NOT want to do vibe-coding if learning is the goal. before college, I didn't even have time to properly pursue the learning phase but I will now have the time and I will chose the learning path.

Also, when someone suggests that vibe-coding is all good if done right and alright when you do it this particular way or that particular way which causes my mind goes to this chain of thought and I feel a little confused.

As such, many of these thoughts float into my head when someone mentions this and it makes me wonder what should I do to achieve that and the other goal as you mentioned which was learning itself, it makes me question both sometimes if I am feeling p(doom). Learning as in, for all the reasons that I explained above and vibe-coding as in feeling shallow and hollow.

I am extremely sorry if I am being unable to succintly convey what I am trying to say and for the longer post. I really don't know how to express this particular thought because its all over the place. I hope that it's okay though and I might not have wasted the time and thanks for commenting and have a nice day.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZumXpZzDsgo

[1]: (although there are still good reasons to learn assembly imo, I recently vibe-coded/[vibe-forked?] a scratchpad application in assembly as a way of messing around with AI.): https://github.com/serJaimeLannister/rhunpad

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