Andrew Ng criticizes advice to stop learning coding

Andrew Ng has called recent advice to stop learning coding—due to AI automation—some of the “worst career advice ever.” He argues that when technology makes tasks easier, demand for those skills rises, not falls. Historically, advances like the move from punch cards to keyboards, or from assembly language to higher-level languages, increased the number of programmers and expanded the software market.

Ng warns that while AI changes the field, those most affected are coders who fail to adapt, not those who continue to learn. Senior engineers