Foundational Coding Skills Still Essential in the Age of AI

An efficiency gap is emerging when it comes to double-checking the work of artificial intelligence. Code literacy and foundational coding skills will be essential for checking AI-generated code, and for stepping in manually when that code breaks down. “Deep fundamentals are the superpower,” says OMSCS instructor Fisayo Omojokun, associate dean for undergraduate education at Georgia Tech’s College of Computing. He notes that programmers can only review code that is as complex as they are able to understand.