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At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

do you have any advice for people who have just started learning programming and don’t have much experience in software engineering? on one hand, i feel worried that i will become irrelevant if i don’t keep up with the times and ↓

i know that i should learn to apply AI to boost my productivity and employability. on the other hand, as someone who’s very inexperienced, i’m worried that using AI when i’m still at a stage of learning and exploration will render me over-reliant on AI.