Why Coding by AI better than codes by Children

Senior programmers understand the challenges of coding. For years, there have been suggestions that children should learn coding, and now there are even efforts to teach them AI.

— I also learned coding from 6th grade onwards, but it was only a subject for one year. Below 6th grade, children are in Junior School, not High School.

— No, I don’t want to take over programming jobs without securing new ones. But do you want children to take over programming jobs?

— The rates at which children were learning coding were high.

— Therefore, AI automation, which involves AI writing code for the world, is viewed as better to children writing code.

— There is no harm in children learning coding. But they are better off celebrating their childhood, aren’t they?

— Even junior programmers know the stress level of coding. Do we want children to be stressed?

— Can’t children have a stress-free childhood?

— So many people are teaching children coding online and in classes. Isn’t that nice?

— Why not have children learn things that matter?

— Why should children learn coding?

— Even experienced programmers understand that it’s challenging to keep pace with evolving programming languages.

— Every senior programmer knows how to interview junior programmers, considering the numerous APIs, functions, methods, global variables, and more they need to remember during interviews (later, online help is available). There are so many APIs, with so many parameters in every languages for kids to learn.

— What would Junior Programmers do then? They would wait and see what new work develops.

— Currently, AI lacks reliability, necessitating the presence of junior developers.

— Senior developers are fully needed.

Is it fun? Or are children’s games fun? What childhood should be like.

Isn’t it better to have AI handle these basic programming tasks than to have children do them?

What is childhood, and what does it signify for children? Are coding jobs detrimental to childhood?

Why not keep complex jobs for senior programmers? For sure, we can’t fully trust AI codes as of now. For example some kinds of variable name use, threading and more need to be tested well.

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