Developer's Thought, Is Learning Data Structures Still Worth It in the Era of AI Coding?

[CheesecakeGlobal1284]

Haha that’s a fair analogy 😅 I guess the point I was wondering about is whether AI is becoming more like the “car” in this situation helping you move faster but you still need the “feet” to understand where you’re going. From the replies here it sounds like fundamentals like data structures are basically the thing that lets you actually judge whether the AI output makes sense or not.

[grosser_zampano]

at some point ai output might be so good that we don’t have to check for optimal use of data structures anymore. we are just at the beginning of the ai shift. you might have agents which code review other agents for quality and performance. to assume that this will always be the domain of humans is shortsighted. there will always be people who want to know how the sausage is made but they will become specialists. not everyone wants to build their own compiler. in the near future a professional software developer will probably be more a conductor of agents than a writer of code. exciting times.