Coding in 2026 is STILL a Superpower (Even with AI)

I have a cs degree, I worked for 5 corporations before leaving to start my own business. Not one employer ever asked me to show my degree to them.

Last mile is everything, Ive learned the hard way from trying to build app with claude. "You're absolutely right, this code doesn't work" proceeds to rewrites and deletes the same snippets in a loop.😂

Thanks Rob for another realistic video! I'm a senior developer and I can only agree with your thoughts. AI is a nice help for us developers, but a replacement it is definitely not. I also agree that the technology part is the easy part, and finding customers is way harder. But I think you have to experience this first hand, before you really understands what that means 😅. I sometimes come across other videos of people giving business advice, and it's absolutely horrible. Nice you see you keep publishing high value content!

Great advice, Rob! Thanks for the Frontend Mentor mention! 🙌

If you dont know what you write how will you correct it when fails during live system

As a developer and business owner, one thing he’s not mentioning are the amount of hours you will put in to create production code that is at the top of the market. Also getting a job as a junior dev almost always in 2025 requires a full degree, legitimate firms no longer will hire coding bootcampers like they did in 2022-23. And I say if you want to build a successful SaaS, then you must put in 80-100hrs to really break into the market and implement things that others are not creating yet. Still room to create a micro-SaaS or other simple software business but you are in a flooded market if your skills are off-par.

I could not agree more, great video! I left school without any qualifications, skipped college, no university, then in 1995 I bought a 486 and lived off corned beef for 3 months. Then I got a job as a programmer and life has treated me well ever since!

I have been working as a developer or software architect since 2001 from age 19. I didn't go to college. I was never good at school. It's safe to say my life would be entirely different if I didn't teach myself to code as a kid. On AI code, another reason to learn to code is that it's still not clear that AI is going to be reliable enough to produce production code without skilled developers hand-holding it and manually making corrections. A lot of the vibe coders are still building simple apps that have hundreds or thousands of nearly identical applications in their training data. When you get into writing software for businesses with unique needs and specialized business rules, that's when the LLMs begin to show their limitations. LLMs make the easy things easier, and the hard things are still hard. (Carl Brown of Internet of Bugs said something like this, I didn't come up with it!)

I'd say, even if you have calc machines, you still have to learn coding same for coding computer systems. 😊

Love you so much brother 🙏🏻