Yes, I started at 49 and landed my first IT job at 53 a few weeks ago. Now I'm a Systems Analyst, just do it!

I'm 34 and made a career shift to programming about a year and a half ago! I encourage you to embark on the adventure of learning programming too.

You still need a reasonable amount of coding knowledge to even work alongside AI in the first place, so no , learning coding will never be worthless.

Not to mention that learning how to solve problems by code also teaches you how to solve problems unrelated to coding since the same approach applies, i.e. breaking down the problem into manageable pieces ultimately solving a bigger problem

This is the most sensible answer to this burning question I have seen yet. Thanks for this amazing explanation. Couldn't agree more!

THANK YOU SO MUCHHH for making this video!!!!!!! Watched the tech lead video a couple of weeks ago and I was so depressed and wanted to give up my childhood dream of becoming a software engineer. Your video gave me so much hope and optimism and that's all i need. Thank you so much Mosh

Excited to hear about this one

You are a life saver, mosh. Thank you!

this is what I needed to hear, thx

Thanks, Mosh, you're an uplifter-- not that I was going to stop learning or anything haha.

Love your channel and have purchased your classes. I have been doing Python for about 9 years and frameworks for about the last 5. I think this is a hard to answer question. I've been playing with some AI code for the past year or so just for giggles. I think there will always be a home for people who do coding but I do think that entry level jobs are going to be torched. Just over the past year, the code I have pulled from AI has gotten pretty strong. I think people should still learn to code because it is not perfect code (like you said). I code for fun so I will keep going. As for anyone who thinks they can just do a 3 month bootcamp and get a 6 figure job ..... nope. I agree with you.... learn to code so you can understand how to repair the flawed AI code. Thanks for you channel and your courses. Best.

You are the boss! I really like the way you carefully pick words to reach both hearts and minds! In fact, you're a genius! I started learning software engineering officially January this year and I turned 40 in February. I have been wondering if I made the right choice because of my age. This video is all I needed to stop worrying. I have competed HTML, CSS, and I'm doing both C and JS at the moment. Thank you.🙏

very clear and concise. Deeply thought out just like your tutorials 👏👏. I completely agree with you - computational thinking is on the rise

Thanks so much for making this video!

Thank you for making such a realistic & optimistic video

Absolutely agree as a programmer in second generation. My dad used to program mainframe and his job was vastly different from mine.

Well said, the analysis is on point. Only caveat I would add is that "software engineering" is a generic term and encompasses many, many different roles from front-end, back-end, database, networking, security, IT operations, etc. Some of these roles will be more impacted than others. For example, IT operations folks spend a lot of time figuring out where the alert came from, what caused it, what needs to be fixed to get service back online etc. -- AI is really good at finding such patterns (same with security -- anywhere pattern recognition is a key skill being used).

Thank you! I've nbeen trying to tell my fellow Compsci students this for a while!

No one makes content like Mosh ...this video just made me have a renewed interest in software engineering and given me a new insight into the field ... I've been into coding like 3years and has been life changing

This is the first time I watch a video from you, I get your point and I share it, but what I'd like to remark is how cool your videos' animations are, it's incredibly fluent and so dinamic, I know It may sound weird, but I really wanted to call it out, because I tend to akwnowledge these kind of things, is that I'm able to understand when a channel has quality and a really well-kept, and definetaly yours is one of them. PD: Thanks for the information, the fact you used real data and not just your personal opinion is just great.

Love your content men. Always conscise, entertaining, and informative. Keep it up!

good point on referring to compiler with boost productivity. the only gap between machine and human brain now are the creativity. I'm not sure when it will gonna last

Thank you for this!

Some adaptability is required in learning and teaching. Thanks helpful. Also backed by facts from reliable source.

Thank you mosh, For giving this better clarity .

Thanks, Mosh. I needed to hear this!

Thanks mosh give everyone confidence everytime ❤

I agree with your point of view

Great as always, thank you!

This waiting music is relatively smooth. 🔥

Mosh!!!! You must be getting inundated with these questions for you to be producing so many videos. Thanks for the video.

The compiler example really makes a good explanation. Noice

AI can automate many tasks traditionally performed by programmers, such as code generation, debugging, and optimization. However, it's unlikely to completely replace programmers anytime soon. Human creativity, problem-solving skills, and understanding of complex systems are still essential for many aspects of software development. AI can augment and streamline the work of programmers, making them more efficient and allowing them to focus on higher-level tasks.

Mosh agree, To use AI in software engineering will be new topic in trends so those adapt that curve will definitely servivive

Great explanation to the present problem ❤

Hello Mosh, many thanks to the relentless Free education you extend to us in coding!. Here I beg to ask , I intend to build an e commerce app . Please walk me through how best I can pull off my idea .Thanks Mosh

CODING WILL NEVER DIE. It's like making a cake for a birthday. If someone buys it from a shop, the shop owner might not care that much about the purpose you give it. However, if someone close to you makes your cake, then they know what you like, how many people to serve, the requirements for each party member and most importantly, love. AI has no love. It is humanity's only rightful servant. It serves us and it does not have a close connection to us all. Code won't die because of the benefits only humans can add to the recipe / program.

Thanks so much Mosh. You are a lifesaver!!

Even if it does die, I still enjoy it as a hobby. Things will always be more blissful doing things from scratch and from your own mind.

I wasn't gonna quit anyways because I am way too passionate about this field, but this video is still very reassuring. Thanks man.

I just turned 41 and know absolutely zero about coding but am considering it because I want a total change. Yours is the second video I have watched immediately after that Tech Lead guy (?) Two VERY different videos lol yours is much more optimistic and isn't pushing for us all to become billionares. And now I think I'll take a look at your courses, thanks dude

Thank you mosh brother

Well said Mosh. Concise

I always tend to hear out both sides of a debate so the "vested interest" comments had me a bit worried you may be exaggerating or cherrypicking in the other videos. The real world science you provided in this video really eased my concerns. thank you!

Loved It Mosh 💯 Great 👌

If you’re already working as a software engineer then it’s worth it. If you’re just starting then it’s a gamble. Not to mention the job markets is horrible right now.

Thanks for the clarification, I almost lost hope due to other peoples negativity.

Great explanation!

I just started learning front-end 2 months ago. While I have a grasp of HTML, and CSS, I'm kind of struggling with Js. This video inspired me to keep going. Thanks!

Another excellent video. Thank you Mosh!!!

I know that was not the scope of the video, but I think is important to let people who want to start a career as a software developer that is really hard to get in this industry, the competition for junior positions is brutal, you could try for even years to get a chance,so it important prepare yourself for it.

Hi Mosh...i hope one day you will produce a course about the Spring Framework

You are my teacher and teacher of my daughter and will be the first teacher of my son too..Thank you!

Hello Mosh! Will you make another React Native course or will you update the course?

I started learning to code 3 4 years ago and I remember I went tru one of your 3 hour tutorials as a complete out of the box begginer. 4 years after, I finished a bootcamp withh a internship and Im finishing my bachelors while being employed as a developer in a company rn. Just so you know, I was working nights at a factory before.

It's really funny, we had the same discussions 30 years ago when CASE tools (computer-aided software engineering) started generating Cobol code on the mainframe!!! And yet, I'm still coding!! Now we have better tools and I don't spent time coding reports or screen line by line like we use to. But humain still design the system, the database, most of the logic and make sure that all the components talk to each other!!!

I agree i code for 25 years things are even better now. Don't worry coding skills still needed on AI. I recommend Mosh I am one of his students and Sharp on skills with his classes when the job demands

I like your optimism. But now we r in the most exciting moment of the beginning of the ai era which means if you want to learn do it your best or leave it ...

I searched about it just now, saw "Tech Leads" video as his title said "google programmer" lol and he says coding is dead. second video i watched yours and you say the opposite. Somewhat satisfied by your response (As you clearly put his thumbnails in your video challenging him to a Duel lmao) but I will keep looking for more information. Thank you for this. Keep guiding people on the right path.

Im not worried about AI im worried about work being outsourced to poor countries where someone will ALWAYS work longer and harder than you for 1/4 the cost.

I remember programming back in the hay days, goto line 2300. Pascal, basic where the languages of choice, i was at university when java came out..

Computer Scientists and programmers of all people should know that it's about to be over for the tech industry. It hasn't even been 2 years since OpenAI released ChatGPT3 to the public and we have autonomous agents, skyrocketing benchmarks on NLP and Coding LLMs, and compute to scale AI further is by no means slowing down. All they ever have to do is get close enough to replace you, and everyone is racing to build the AI that will do it. Just being real.

I agree with your opinion and point of view. In my opinion, software development will not disappear in the next 20 years. The biggest challenge is communication, not programming. And Complexity kills AI.

I am 43, and I did a career shift too, now I am a developer (EU). You can do it, but it won't be easy.

The ones you mentioned towards the end of the video, like what the next gen software engineer need to know more could you please make a tutorial for these topics?

Mosh thank you for your content and advice - now I have a serious question. We know about the tech lay-offs but Google went as far as firing the Entire Python Team how this will impact python ecosystem? Js, Go or C++ team could be next!?

I wonder, if I need to spend a substantial amount of time to construct a meaningful prompt to AI to make it writing a bunch of code for me, which I'll still have to verify and polish, why wouldn't I write that code myself?

Nice advice Mosh. I am learning python from your videos

I'm learning smart contract engineering because it seems niche, and i imagine demand will skyrocket. Plus, new career paths are easier to get into.

i find searching for information is for me the main advantage in programming AI. you have to define exactly what should be in the end. So you have to concetrate on your midels much more than in the past, meaning, you have to be a better programmer.

It helped me to find information such as “how do you create a tab icon for web site of an Unicode HTML symbol using link element?” It did it exactly and it hard to find that information via Google because most use href to image file on server but instead this problem requires embedding data into href

Regardless of outside factors, at this point, I need coding to get my own things done. The more I learned the more I realized I was taking ten steps to get things done when I could actually take one. It wouldn’t make sense for me to ever stop coding.

You are the one of the best teachers of coding. I got 6 job offers after completing your .NET courses . Thanks Mosh .

Bro, coding is far from dead. While there are currently many developments in the field of artificial intelligence that may result in some repetitive, manual tasks being automated and simplified, the fundamental role and necessity for coders will remain. Coding is the foundation for the development and implementation of many of the technologies and tools that are powering these developments in artificial intelligence, not to mention the ongoing requirement for coders to further develop and refine coding languages and frameworks to meet the changing demands and advancements in technology. Therefore, overall it is safe to say that coding is still very much alive, and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.

Solid advice. As a coder and youtuber i was demotivated to watch many videos on AI and how it is taking the jobs and all that stuff. Also youtube views have dropped. But anyways there is hope. Mosh, that background music is so calm and peaceful in the video. Can anybody name the track used in the video?

There are multiple archetypes of software engineers. In certain domains, like security, transactions, ..., humans are and will remain essential for quality control. The cost of one mistake is enormous. In other domains, like image understanding, machine vision,.. an increasing part coding has been transitioning to learned models. There are still a lot of traditional coding needed at the interface of models, but it is arguably true that in domains that are directly reliant on machine learning, and increasing portion of what software work has transitioned to other skills, often referred to as "machine learning experts". It is an over-simplification to speak of "coding" in a vacuum. There are many types of "software engineers", some specilizing in security, other specializing in AI, and everything in between (Embedded Systems, Mobile, Server, ...). More focus should be put in addressing what sub-domains within software engineering experience more growth than others, and students should reflect on what sub-domain of software engineering they are the most interested to learn about. This would make a lot more sense.

hey mosh thank you for everything can you make video aobut what aother skill will help us to becahmoe better programer like reading fiction books or math or something like that thanks

I'm 21 and shifted to programming years ago. Now I'm made my career with one software company from England (remote)

great video!!

I'm honestly just terrified right now because of the mass layoffs happening. I hope everything will go back to normal next year.

This is awesome 👌

Thank you very mosh 😅. We are proud of you 👍

Coding is not dead. Coding is evolving because coding is the foundation of AI.

I encourage everyone to learn coding, I am an amateur, spent two years in a development team, hired as a PM they put everyone to code. Now knowing some coding, having seen how complex full stack apps are built is an invaluable asset even if my skills are not sufficient for a real developer job. I think more business focused roles should take basic coding lessons . Also, most organisations are not even setup to use AI as promised in fancy presentations.

Not to fear, just evolved

Hey Mosh! What course(s) are you planning to release next on your learning portal?

Biggest problem is that if for example you have a startup with 4 or 5 people working, you don't need more. AI will make it look like you have 6 or 7. Those 5 people will use AI and deny more working spaces. I know this for a fact with several startups. And it only gets bigger with company size.

I'm just starting to learn python and my goal is to learn data analysis for research purposes. My question, how much do you think it's ok for me to use chat gpt while learning? It's quiet useful when I forget/miss syntax, but I do worry about relying too much on it and would love to bear from someone with more experience

Tell us because we really want to know much more about coding ❤❤

THANK YOU SIR

Words of wisdom!

you should also update your courses or make new ones with how you can use Ai with progamming languages, for example the use of custom chatgpt, and use of fastapi library with python, use docker, and serverless containers and use SQLmodel neon postgress sql, these are just examples of what u could do, like with your new courses, this would help in securing more jobs imo...

Mosh King 👏👏

Thanks, Mosh, thanks

Thanks for sharing.

I clicked to hear Randika Sir's English accent. But I think you deliberately speaking in a clear manner so everyone can grab the words. My guess is your natural speaking should be way more word blendings, clippings and etc.

Learning the concepts is more important than knowing the syntax of everything

The A I scenario of that it’s going to kill coding reminds me of what happened to network engineers. If you go back 20 or more years, every small company employed their own network engineer. (Law firms, CPA firms, small manufactures, etc) As the software for networks evolved, it took less hours and people to manage these network infrastructures. The point is, network engineer jobs never went away. The network engineers were able to do more work, more efficiently. It’s like what is talked about in this video. The software engineer that learns to work with A.I. will be the one who will continue to work in coding. It’s a “subjective” guess, but I do think that this is how software engineering will evolve.

Hi Mosh, I am looking to transition my career. As AI continues to grow daily, it leaves me with questions about programming. I have no background in this area and have reached a point where I don't even know where to begin. I enjoy drawing and sketching, and I feel I need to learn AI to keep up. Many sources suggest Python because it is easier to learn, but it seems that Java is used more frequently. Could you please help me with this?

Thanks man for the tip... I remember l share a simple mean stack projects to my friend.. But he told me" naaah now are days they is Devin 😂".... It seems people are having fear of the unknown lets use Al as a tool in our tool box....thanks for the great support for all of us viva coding