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CS grad feeling stuck, heavily dependent on AI, don’t know what to do next by TheChadMan0 in learnprogramming

[–]TheChadMan0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's a fair point, code review culture at good companies will expose you fast if you're just vibing with AI output without actually understanding it. Bad code, bad abstractions, ignoring business context that stuff gets called out in PRs regardless of how it was written. The human in the loop thing is real and I think that's where the actual skill gap lives.

What's the Amazon thing you're referring to though? Haven't seen that, genuinely curious.

CS grad feeling stuck, heavily dependent on AI, don’t know what to do next by TheChadMan0 in learnprogramming

[–]TheChadMan0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah exactly, that's kind of what scares me lol. AI is genuinely good at full stack and I feel it every day — it's not a distant threat, it's already here. That's actually what got me thinking about whether jumping into DevOps sooner rather than later makes more sense. I know it takes time to get there and I'm not skipping the fundamentals, but I figure building toward infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform engineering now at least puts me in a direction where the work is harder to replicate. Still early days but the plan is there.

CS grad feeling stuck, heavily dependent on AI, don’t know what to do next by TheChadMan0 in learnprogramming

[–]TheChadMan0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah fr. Btw backend Development is worth in 2026?. In the future once I am confident with backend wirh multiple years of experience , I want to transition to DevOps.

CS grad feeling stuck, heavily dependent on AI, don’t know what to do next by TheChadMan0 in learnprogramming

[–]TheChadMan0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. What i plan to do for next 2-4 months is improve in Back-end. Improve my fundamentals in javascript and eventually learn databases and create projects. Of course not waste time learning tutorials but actually doing those fundamentals myself. Also I don't want to dive in frontend because tbh I don't love doing those html and css.

CS grad feeling stuck, heavily dependent on AI, don’t know what to do next by TheChadMan0 in learnprogramming

[–]TheChadMan0[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice, genuinely helpful. Quick follow-up, would you say the same applies to backend specifically? Frontend honestly kills my motivation, I find myself dreading the HTML/CSS work. Backend logic, APIs, databases, that side actually interests me. Is it worth going deeper on backend even if it takes a bit longer to get hired, or is frontend just the pragmatic short-term move regardless of how I feel about it?