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Re:Swift 6.4 Released by lemonginger on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:48PM (#49715259)
As a coder of 30+ years in various other languages that sincerely wants to learn Swift can someone please help me understand why it is not diametrically opposed for a company to suggest, effectively in the same breath no less, that I should learn to code Swift myself and/or just have some AI do it?

Every time I set out to learn I just feel like I'm being an idiot because in a year, or now, nobody will hand code anything. And even if we still reckon that some knowledge will be required to verify the voluminous output of AI there is now a vast moat of Jr. unemployability that has arisen making it exponentially harder to justify learning to code in the first place?

groan

Re:Swift 6.4 Released by lordnacho on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:54PM (#49715344)
If you have that much experience, swift is probably just a mix of what you already know? Do a couple of tutorials and then you are ready to vibe it.

It's the people who haven't done the grind of learning a new language so have the problem, since LLM will give them solutions but not experience.

Re:Swift 6.4 Released by rTX5CMRXIfFG on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:18AM (#49728383)
If you're looking for a pay off for learning anything at all, just don't---AI is projected to take over a lot of knowledge areas. You'd better invest in learning a physical skill or build a network of high net worth people and somehow make something of it.

Now, if AI eating the world doesn't matter to you, then just learn what you want to learn.