Would you trust a "Vibe taxi driver", or a "vibe dentist"? Somehow the industry trusts "vibe coders" or "AI coders" but as expected quality is down the drain.
Regardless of if you like it or not, the AI enshittification has begun. Now AI is making even healthcare decisions, an unregulated market. Not just physical health, mental health too. The self-driving car you take, may almost kill you.
Is there a place for quality products and services these days?
Python was all the rage a few years back, and still highly popular. Though the methods of learning have adapted. In the past blogs were popular, combined with stackoverflow and fiddling.
These days AI made a big impact, stackoverflow is down, and people use AI way more than fiddling. So there is a lot of "vibe coding", where code is generated, but quality is down the drain.
Apps full of security holes. Mind you that link is for large companies, you can imagine how many security holes exist in vibe coded apps: IDOR, credentials hard coded, no row-level security causing attackers to dump all your personal data, SQL injection, RCE caused by no upload filter. Indeed, there is more software than ever, but not software you want to trust your personal data with.
If you want to learn dev skills the old fashioned way, that's still possible. To practice Python there are many platforms like PyChallenge, leetcode and others. And of course you can build personal projects without AI. But if there's still a place for quality products and services in the modern world? Only time will tell. There used to be "buy it for life" products, these days.. the products may last only one year.