This made me think of people who lost weight after claiming to be happy with their bodies for number of years until the weight loss drugs showed up. When this happened some said that these people were never actually happy and that they just pretended to be.

After seeing some colleagues and friends make fun of me for not giving into vibe coding and now using AI to code all the time themselves, I now think that they probably never liked programming in the first place either. It was probably the only way to get and/or keep their jobs.

Are there people here who have had similar experience and reached the same conclusion? Apologies if i offended anyone with the initial bit. I just used that as an example.

Typescript and Java dev. Ive tried learning python several times but can get it to stick. Learnt Java this year and it was much more fun. If I wish to be relevant today with AI, every AI material say learn Python. Am I doomed?

Lichess is open source and allows access to most of it's data. I want to make something that will alert me when certain tournaments are coming up in lichess have done programming but it's been a while so pretty rusty. Looking for where to begin