AI models are getting better and better and making fewer and fewer mistakes. However, in my opinion, you only truly master a skill once you’ve done it yourself.
It doesn’t really do you much good to rely solely on AI coding if you don’t understand the code. Experienced developers who have been writing code themselves for years can debug code much faster and more easily in many situations. AI models can make mistakes and sometimes fail to find those errors or produce incorrect results. If you don’t really understand the code, you’re pretty much on your own.
That’s why I would personally always recommend that you write code yourself from time to time, so you can gain a solid understanding of it.
You can easily develop with models like GLM 5.1 and Kimi k2.6 at a fraction of the cost of GPT 5.5 or Opus 4.7. Requests often cost just a few cents.
Open-source models have caught up tremendously recently. Those who can’t or don’t want to invest a lot of money can already develop with Kimi and GLM without any problems. We don’t have to wait another year for that.
AI models are getting better and better and making fewer and fewer mistakes. However, in my opinion, you only truly master a skill once you’ve done it yourself.
It doesn’t really do you much good to rely solely on AI coding if you don’t understand the code. Experienced developers who have been writing code themselves for years can debug code much faster and more easily in many situations. AI models can make mistakes and sometimes fail to find those errors or produce incorrect results. If you don’t really understand the code, you’re pretty much on your own.
That’s why I would personally always recommend that you write code yourself from time to time, so you can gain a solid understanding of it.