Vibe Coding vs Traditional Coding Should Kids Still Learn to Code #podcast

Key Takeaways

Yeah, I'm making sure that students learn learn vibe coding. I think my and and this is sort of biased by my own personal experience. Like I think I and I've told this story before in other places, but like I you know, I was inspired to try to create software. I sort of took the initial step of trying to make that happen, watched a bunch of YouTube videos, and this was like pre any amount of education that I had actually done in the area. Um and like failed, you know, wonderfully and was never able to make anything actually work. Like I spent many many uh you know, I was trying to build an iOS app. I would go to the library in my city because I didn't have a Mac. Um and sort of spend time watching videos and trying to do stuff, and you couldn't save files on those computers. So I had to sort of come up with some crazy way to try to save my work so that I could keep coming back to it. Um and all that stuff like never built anything that actually worked. Uh and like the code never even ran, but I was sort of like inspired and thankfully was persistent enough to like continue. Um and then ultimately studied computer science and started learning C++ and was miserable because C++ is not that fun to program in and what they have you learn in some of these intro CS classes um is just like not that exciting. And like all of that's to say I think the current way that people learn software and programming, especially kids and everything else like that, is you sort of have to um you know, you have to expend disbelief that you can actually build something interesting. Uh like kid like I think a lot of kids are like, "I want to make video games." Like that's what got me excited. Initially, it's what my little brother who studied computer science, same thing. Like he was like, "I want to make video games." Um and you're so off when you start learning to code from being able to build video games. And I feel like vibe coding is this way to like make it more visceral that like you're actually close and you're able to build this stuff. Um and like get more and more people excited about what's possible building software. Um so I I still think folks should learn how to code.