As a coder of 30+ years in various other languages that sincerely wants to learn Swift can someone please help me understand why it is not diametrically opposed for a company to suggest, effectively in the same breath no less, that I should learn to code Swift myself and/or just have some AI do it?

Every time I set out to learn I just feel like I'm being an idiot because in a year, or now, nobody will hand code anything. And even if we still reckon that some knowledge will be required to verify the voluminous output of AI there is now a vast moat of Jr. unemployability that has arisen making it exponentially harder to justify learning to code in the first place?

groan

If you're looking for a pay off for learning anything at all, just don't---AI is projected to take over a lot of knowledge areas. You'd better invest in learning a physical skill or build a network of high net worth people and somehow make something of it.

Now, if AI eating the world doesn't matter to you, then just learn what you want to learn.

If you have that much experience, swift is probably just a mix of what you already know? Do a couple of tutorials and then you are ready to vibe it.

It's the people who haven't done the grind of learning a new language so have the problem, since LLM will give them solutions but not experience.