Many questions come to mind: - What is the revenue model? - What is your personal story? Why you do not explain it in the site?

It happened the same to me when trying other programs. Swift and Xcode are my main tools, and I feel that AI is especially bad in the Apple environment. That is not related to those programs nor Apple but because in that world we care specially about design and details.

There is a "feeling" a sensibility, emotion behind the code that I think a machine will never get. That is why I think I should keep learning code in all environments and perhaps in Apple platforms, a tech I love. A machine will never feel that, will never love.

In life I learn a lot from my mistakes, not much from others' mistakes. Could we apply that to AI and code?

As I say in the question I use AI as a teacher. What confuses me is that I see some programmers that I admire that say something like "I do not code any more" I do not understand how could they make good work?

If I understand he says this related to regular text but we could extend to writing code too.

But still, I am building relatively small apps and I do nor see any AI making clean, organized, long-term code. I do not see any path that they could do it in a near future.

"Should students still study computer science if AIs will write most code? ... even if you have AIs writing all your code for you, you're still in the position of an engineering manager, and good engineering managers should be able to do the work of those working for them."

Paul Graham. August 2026 https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html

I think that argument makes a lot of sense and coincides with my experience. I code all my projects, and I only use AI as a teacher, or bug finder. Again and again I see AI giving me a complicated, confusing code for something that could be much simpler, cleaner and organized. If I let AI write code I do not completely understand, sooner than later it all becomes a great mess that not even that AI can understand.

Still there are a lot of people who say that learning to code is not necessary. What do you think - Should we learn to code? - If you already know how to code, do you keep learning? - What are your experiences?

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