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.

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

Not every piece of knowledge is gained through school, or even through work experience

Over the years I’ve noticed, many great works of programming were born out of someone’s free time programming. Just look at open source stuff on GitHub, even video games. Linux for example, wasn’t made through a school project or as a work assignment, it was done in someone's free time. Some people on r/osdev literally make mini operating systems. No job or school project requires that

A lot of cybersecurity people also learned their stuff through self learning

Even like those super smart people who answer questions in forums - most of their jobs don’t require that sort of complexity. And that stuff definitely isn’t taught in school. They just know it, from some other source

So what’s something very complex / niche that you learned outside of school / work? How did you learn it?

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?