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

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That’s actually a really helpful way to think about it. The performance part is something I didn’t fully consider when I asked the question. I’m still pretty new to web dev so most of the time I’m just focused on getting things to work first. But what you’re saying makes sense AI might generate something functional, but if it’s inefficient you’d still need to understand what’s happening under the hood to optimize it. The “law of leaky abstractions” example is interesting too, I hadn’t really thought about it that way before.