Learning to code in the age of AI

N.B.: I wrote this while at the Recurse Center ( recurse.com ) back in October, but for some reason did not post it. I still think its worth reading, but I no longer completely endorse this essay, in part because my coding is no longer solely for learning to code. The dilemma of competent LLMs It is alarming to consider the fact that as someone learning coding, AI models are quite a bit better at…