Is It Still Worth Learning to Code? Amjad Masad Weighs In

a16z2023-04-07

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Learning to code remains valuable with advancements like GPT-3, allowing for quicker proficiency and impactful projects. A project creating a GPT-based site in Python on day 80 of learning demonstrates accessibility and efficiency. Coding skills lead to time savings, deeper digital understanding, and lucrative opportunities, emphasizing their transformative impact on tasks and professional development.

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Advancements like GPT-3 make learning to code worth it today.

02:44

The speaker became proficient in programming after 300 hours of learning, showcasing the potential for quicker proficiency with modern tools.

A project creating a GPT-based site to generate articles in The New York Times style was completed on day 80 of a 100-day Python learning program.

The accessibility and efficiency of learning coding skills are emphasized through the completion of the project.

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Benefits of learning to code for non-developers.

03:19

Building a website using AI in 26 hours resulted in earning $1800, highlighting the efficiency of coding skills.

Coding skills offer transformative impact, making tasks quicker and more accessible in the digital landscape.

Acquiring coding knowledge has various professional and personal benefits, emphasizing its value in today's world.

00:00foreign

00:02I have to ask the question which is just

00:05simply is it still worth learning to

00:08code to me it feels like it's more worth

00:10it today because it's a tie that raises

00:14old boats right like we said the 10x

00:16becomes a thousand Acts

00:18but like at 0.1x becomes a you know 10x

00:22right so if you're someone who's

00:25previously maybe whose impact with

00:29Coatings can be very minimal now it's

00:31going to be meaningful because there's

00:35this Rising tide previously like you

00:37learn a bit of coding you learn how to

00:39plug together some Frameworks and create

00:41some UI going from that to like doing a

00:44little bit of parsing for example

00:46parsing some texts on that or not it's

00:49very hard

00:50right now you can just use gpt3 to do

00:52the parsing

00:54right so you're doing the basic coding

00:56and then anytime you find something

00:58that's like a little difficult you can

01:00plug in gpt3 in that place

01:02and so I actually think that programming

01:05becomes more fun and impactful because

01:08of that so it's like totally worth doing

01:10even more worth doing than than before

01:13because you're going to get more done

01:14you're going to get not gonna get as

01:16stuck yeah

01:20probably learn I wonder if you have any

01:22when I learn

01:26Ed track how many hours I was spending

01:28from when I first started to when I

01:31actually felt proficient and for me that

01:34number ended up being 300 hours

01:36um maybe I was slow maybe as fast I

01:38don't know but it kind of shocked me in

01:40a way because if you actually distill

01:43300 hours down to if you were learning

01:47full-time which I know not everyone can

01:48do that's less than two months and now I

01:51think to the tools we have today and I'm

01:53like gosh like we can probably do it way

01:54faster than 300 hours so any thoughts on

01:57how quickly someone can actually get to

01:59proficiency with the tools that we have

02:02so I know you're you're a fan of uh

02:04bulging he was on your podcast he you

02:07know he has this uh beef with media and

02:09so he wanted to show that The New York

02:12Times is a bunch of bots right it's it's

02:15like he he put in a bounty on repl he

02:19was one of our early adopters on

02:20bounties and he wrote it's like I want

02:23uh someone to build the GPT times

02:27instead of like New York Times

02:29but um just totally based on tweets you

02:33give it a tweet and it goes and generate

02:36an article written in the style of the

02:39New York Times so actually uh it is it

02:42should be up now so if you go to the

02:44gpttimes.com

02:46so uh that's basically like the site

02:48that was built using uh the bounties

02:50program and the the person who built it

02:54was on day 80 I think of 100 days of

02:58python so 100 days python is one of our

03:00programs to learn how to code and we say

03:03you can do a day of python in basically

03:0720 minutes so if you was on day 80

03:10spending 20 minutes how many hours is

03:12that that's 26 hours so in 26 hours they

03:16were able to do uh to build an entire

03:19website using AI

03:21and earn 1800 from from biology

03:25right so that's that's I think your

03:26answer I mean maybe that guy was an

03:29outlier but we're seeing it all the time

03:31where it's like

03:33it's taking weeks for someone to get to

03:35a place where they can build things and

03:37I think that's really what matters I

03:39think that's incredible because I think

03:42one of the best decisions I made was

03:43learning to code because you just to me

03:45it really was like a foundational shift

03:47in understanding the world around me

03:49because again so much of what we do is

03:52digital it is online and so even if you

03:54don't want to go and be the developer

03:56that's hired to build products just

03:58having that understanding and it's kind

04:00of crazy when you think about it if you

04:02were to actually position that like

04:03before and after to people and say well

04:05now it only takes 30 hours

04:07that's like you could do that in a week

04:10could take four days off from your job

04:13go through this and I know there's a

04:15difference between the 20 minutes a day

04:16and you know a straight shot but that's

04:19pretty incredible

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