1. The Shift from Coding to AI Agents
AI hype has made traditional coding skills feel like a liability while shifting attention toward building agents, causing drops in computer science enrollment and coding boot camp closures.
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1:07 · 8 September 2025
The "Learn to Code" Age Is Over - How AI Killed Coding
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2. Future Software Engineer Shortage
The current disdain for learning to code is expected to result in a huge demand and shortage for qualified software engineers in the short and medium term.
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The hype, it's gone from software engineering. The hype definitely went to AI. What does that mean? Well, being a coder became a liability, not an asset. Suddenly, if you know how to code, you invested all this time to get good for nothing because AI can code and a lot of developers feel like losers because of all the time they spend investing in a skill. On top of that, graduates are leaving or avoiding CS degrees.
And I think Stanford and Duke University reported a 20% decrease in enrollment in CS and CS related courses. A lot of boot camps went bankrupt, so they stopped pumping software devs into the industry. And of course, finally, coding influencers moved on to selling AI courses. You know, software and learning how to code is not cool anymore. What's cool now is building agents and getting the agent to do everything for you.
And if you cannot do that, you won't have a job, which is clear BS, but it's taking attention from coding, which will probably lead to a huge shortage of qualified software engineers in the short and medium term. So if you stick around for a while, we will get to a point where you're going to be in huge demand.