Why should I learn AI? It seems like learning real computer science or programming would make more sense.

Posted by hireme-plz@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 69 comments

I really don't like it when they say, "You need to learn AI or you'll fall behind.". IMO, It seems like learning AI is nothing more than just typing what you think, which is essentially the same as writing anything else.

Take this MCP, for example. The AI influencers were acting like it’s a gift from the gods that allows agent to talk to your computer. In reality? It’s just JSON-RPC a protocol from the early 2000s, wrapped in a trendy name. We’ve had plugin architectures and middleware for decades. Telling an AI what a tool does in natural language is just a fancy way of writing a documentation file that we used to call a Readme.

Some people might say I'm a Luddite. But this is what I think, and I want to hear what other people think.