Is Learning to Build Software Still Worth It with AI? (My Honest Take)

REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) hit #1 on GitHub Trending last week. Point your AI coding agent at an app and it works out how a feature is built, down to the binary, then rebuilds it. When AI can do THAT, is anything still worth learning? The simple answer is yes, because no model can read your mind. In this video I break down why reverse engineering works so well (the finished app already holds the intent) and the "meat proxy" trap of dumping a ticket into your coding agent and pasting back whatever comes out. Then I give you the test I use for every skill: if the next model is twice as good, does this matter more or less? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Check out Firecrawl and their new tool Alexandria, the knowledge library for superintelligence: https://firecrawl.link/cole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Join Dynamous for the new Agentic Coding Course 2.0 - the core of the course is now COMPLETE: https://dynamous.ai - REA GitHub (Reverse Engineer Anything): https://github.com/morluto/rea - Don't be a meat proxy (Niklas Gruhn): https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 0:00 Reverse Engineer Anything Is Going Viral 1:26 AI Can't Read Your Mind 2:40 Don't Be a Meat Proxy 3:52 Why Reverse Engineering Works So Well 5:17 You Have to Build the Reference 6:56 Sponsor: Firecrawl 8:19 My Software Factory Example 10:22 Giving the Agent a 3D Reference 12:36 The 2x Test 12:59 What Matters Less 13:45 What Matters More 14:36 Engineers of the Harness 15:27 Final Thoughts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos weekly - at least every Wednesday at 7:00 PM CDT!