Is Learning to Code Still Worth It in 2026?

Asa Khan

Asa Khan

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I've been thinking about learning programming, but with AI writing code faster than ever, I'm wondering if it's still worth investing the time.

For those who code professionally or use it in your business:

What language would you learn first today?
Has AI made your job easier or harder?
If you were starting from scratch, what path would you take?

Would appreciate advice from people with real experience. Thanks!
 
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From my personal experience, i'd get a hands on experience in a project you want to build, rather than focusing on learning any specific language. With ai everything's faster, but also easier. But from my experience building a lot of things, if i'd absolutelly needed to point something, it would be php and js. Because almost everything else is derived from then. Even if the logic might be based on C++, i'd rather get the general understanding of php and js, and probably you'd cover 85 - 90% of all codes
 
ai is getting better and better every month but it still good to know the basics and learn to code so you can understand when the ai does something wrong.
 
Yes, obviously. AI has made coding faster, but it hasn't removed the need to understand how software works. If you can't read, debug, or improve the code AI generates, you'll hit a wall pretty quickly.

Start to learn python first because it is useful for automation, AI, web development, and scripting.
 
In my opinion AI makes better website but the bugs in the code it will not solve a developer can identify the bugs and solve them , so I prefer you to learn programming
 
yeah coding is still worth it but the focus has shifted. you don't need to memorize syntax anymore, you just need to understand how things connect. if you want to do any real marketing automation or scraping, ai will write the basic script but you still need to know how to debug it when a proxy fails or cloudflare blocks you. id start with python. it is easy to get into and lets you build bots and scrapers quickly. just use ai to generate the bulk of the code and you do the troubleshooting.
 
Yes is still worth to learn the basic processes required so you can ask ai to code more effective compared to a newbiew who will only say in general what need to be build by AI. I will however not waste time to learn to code myself but to learn the processes and basic principles is still very usefull
 
Ai is going better each day but still you need basic so you can understand what is going on code
 
Back-end is definitely still worth it, front-end frameworks are getting hit by AI pretty hard.
 
Yeah it is still worth it but don't bother learning like a computer science student. If you are doing any kind of automation or scraping like @TheoRank mentioned, you mostly just need to know how to read API docs and inspect network traffic. AI is great at writing the basic script but it constantly hallucinates endpoints or uses outdated libraries. id start with JS/Node... once you understand how to inspect the network tab in chrome and map those requests to a script, you can pretty much get AI to build whatever you want.
 
Yeah @Wraithed makes a good point about the network tab. honestly, if you are doing anything related to marketing or automation, understanding HTTP requests, headers, and cookies is way more useful than memorizing syntax. AI is great for pumping out the basic structure, but it always messes up the actual scraping logic or API integration because endpoints change. python is probably the easiest to start with because the syntax is simple, but JS is also solid since you can use it right in the browser console. just don't spend months on basic syntax tutorials... pick a small project like a basic scraper, let AI write the first draft, and then figure out how to fix it when it inevitably breaks. That is where the actual learning happens now.
 
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