Calling me a gatekeeper is laughable. I’ve spent the last 12 years building courses to help people become software engineers. I just released a course on Claude Code and how to use it the right way. This isn’t gatekeeping. Just an honest concern. We have a new generation of devs who don’t read books, don’t finish 30% of a course, spend hours on IG and TikTok, and now lean on AI agents to write code they don’t understand. No review. No quality check. They can’t even tell quality from garbage. They just hit Enter like they’re pulling a slot machine. Some may say: “Mosh, why do you care? It’s their app, let them build it however they want.” Here’s why: 1/ It’s not just their app. Their code holds real users’ data (payments, messages, health info, etc). People who never agreed to be test subjects pay the price when things break. 2/ The talent pipeline is a commons. Every senior was once a junior who learned the fundamentals. Skip that for a generation and in 10 years there’s no one left who actually understands the systems everything runs on (banks, hospitals, infrastructure, etc) 3/ They’re being sold a lie. Influencers profit from “you don’t need to learn, just vibe-code.” The devs buying that pitch are the ones who’ll be unemployable when the market corrects and companies realize they need people who can debug, architect, and reason. This isn’t gatekeeping. It’s the opposite! I want this generation to make it. So if you’re starting out: learn the fundamentals, finish what you start, and use AI to amplify real skill, not replace it.
