I am using ChatGPT since dec/22 and I showed to my son in that same month, I can say the boy turned into a llm master. Fast forward to aug/25, he asked if he should learn Python during his gap year and I said “for sure!” with all the enthusiasm to see your son doing smth you love 🙂 but …I know there is a growing assumption in technical circles that learning to code has lost its purpose, now that language models can generate working software from a short prompt, like my kid could do in a blink.

I stand by my suggestion and I read an article I loved about this clash of opinions. The argument treats coding the way we already treat mathematics or literature, as a discipline worth learning for what it teaches regardless of direct vocational payoff. The skills gained through the learning process extend well beyond syntax. Debugging teaches a structured way of isolating the source of a problem; composition teaches how small, well defined pieces combine into something larger; and the discipline of unambiguous instruction transfers to almost any field that requires clear thinking. These are meta-skills, in the sense that they remain useful long after any specific language or framework becomes obsolete. And with the added bonus of knowing to program 🙂

I could not have said better!

https://stevekrouse.com/learn-to-code