I"ve been striving in the programming world for more than 5 years now and I have spent 3 of these years before the existence of a lot of AI tools that modern programmers - or shall I say “Vibe coders” - rely on. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity (the only good AI) and a lot of the many tools that has only appeared recently were merely a luxury at my time, All you had to solve issues were platforms like GitHub, StackOverflow, Reddit and the thousand forums there is for every piece of software. You had to ACTUALLY make use of your brain in order to piece answers together from multiple sources and form your own understanding of a probable solution that might as well fail to work, In which case you either went insane or took on another battle to find a fix. To clarify, I’m not against using AI in a productive manner, I personally use a couple of AI tools daily in order to make my life easier and also avoid doing tedious tasks that technology can do tirelessly, Quickly, And much effectively then I’ll probably be able to do. What I will complain about however is the unexplainable number of beginner programmers that think, actually not think, BELIEVE that AI will take over this industry sooner or later Which is not only wrong but also an absurdly popular belief that makes me question whether certain people should’ve picked up CS as a major or not. I help out in multiple communities in my free time, And countless times I had this beginner (maybe first year CS major) ask a question along the lines of “Will AI take over this industry?” or “I’m scared to learn coding because AI, what do I do?" And each damn time I have to explain how AI is only a tool and that it can’t understand code. It has gotten tiring over time to explain this to every single person and to counter the many repetitive arguments they use, Not to mention that almost all of these arguments are coming either from YouTube or some random irrational blog post on the internet that can’t be taken seriously.