> It is almost 2026 and really only a matter of time before AI papers over all those little cracks it currently has, and truly delivers on the promise of vibe-coding. So the question now becomes, do you really want to learn that new language and become a newbie again at this late a stage?
AI-assisted coding - not full-blown vibecoding, but having an AI agent generate code under close direction, supervision, and review - allows me to work competently in a bigger set of languages/frameworks than ever before. In particular, in the last year I've written quite a bit of Typescript and Python without ever having learned those languages properly. They're both close enough to Ruby - a language I do know well - that I can read the code and understand what it does; or ask the AI questions when I see a language idiom I don't know.
Maybe, given enough time, I'll accidentally learn some new languages this way!
AI-assisted coding - not full-blown vibecoding, but having an AI agent generate code under close direction, supervision, and review - allows me to work competently in a bigger set of languages/frameworks than ever before. In particular, in the last year I've written quite a bit of Typescript and Python without ever having learned those languages properly. They're both close enough to Ruby - a language I do know well - that I can read the code and understand what it does; or ask the AI questions when I see a language idiom I don't know.
Maybe, given enough time, I'll accidentally learn some new languages this way!