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I am not sure if this is right place to ask and if it was somewhere already answered or there is some material on this subject please let me know.

I started to learn programming more than a year ago (python/sql/vba) and I use it in my current position to which I was moved around four months ago. At the beginning I was excited about programming, it's hard and sometimes boring, but sometimes I felt so excited when I was writing a program and when I was solving things. Then in my job I started to discover ai, and that was it.

I am still thinking to start applied cs this autumn, but after using Claude code for a month I just feel it doesn't make sense. Claude code is so good that I can work on dotnet web app without knowing C#, javascript, css, html, I can fix and write python or vba macros faster and better than I would do without it. Every time I read people saying things like ai code is trash or seeing youtube videos saying how companies will not hire less engineers, how ai cant maintain code and you need people for that, I just see this programmers with formal education and experience that just can't deal with this change and refuse to accept the fact that their skills they learned so hard and worked so hard on are becoming obsolete. Today I've seen 50 thumbs up on a comment saying that ai empowering people (making everybody able to create software) is a bad thing, that's how these people hate ai. I get it, it tells them "you are nobody".

My final question is, do you think it makes sense to learn programming for job nowadays or study CS and pay for it in the uni? I don't think I can make it alone, i tried studying alone but it's difficult. And if yes, then how would you do it, how to learn knowing that an app can make it for you in a short amount of time with no effort. As I sai, thanks for sharing your opinions or some texts/materials on this topic.

Hello. I wanted to set default program for opening pdf files to okular instead of firefox and I've written it like this

xdg-mime default org.kde.okular.desktop application/pdf

And I can see the entry here

~/.config/mimeapps.list

While it works for cosmic files, it doesn't work when I open it on desktop. Any ideas?

I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this. I am running debian trixie with kde and I have a bad touchpad experience, I think it's libinput tied. I trying to change the configuration quirk for my touchpad, mostly unsuccessfully, the only thing that worked was setting fuzz (that's what it was called I think), but it's still worse than on windows. Also got a little bit tired with libreoffice calc (I feel at home with ms excel), tried gnome alternative (gnumeric) but there I get another bug with cursor becoming white on the white spreadsheet, I don't like the icons layout too, and generally I would judge my experience with kde/linux application as maybe not bad, but also not good, e.g. on my job interview I had to install chromium because a camera wasn't working in teams on firefox esr. My question, quite broad I know, is is there a way to make linux desktop experience smoother or better, or the only option is windows? Also a little bit fed up with how complicated installing non-debian repo software is. I was thinking about switching to arch for broader software presence in AUR and newer libinput/kernel/kde versions although I doubt if it would help with my touchpad issues. Or maybe some of this bugs with theme and colours (like the one with the cursor) are due to gtk and qt conflict and simply using gnome would help. Maybe trying sth more corporate like fedora. Thanks for answers or sth where I can learn more about this