Thoughts on GPT-5.5 and What It Means for Learning to Code

I’ve been playing around with the latest wave of AI tools, especially GPT-5.5, and I keep coming back to the same thought: It’s not that coding is getting easier. It’s that the bottleneck is moving. Before, the hardest part was syntax — remembering how things work, debugging tiny mistakes, searching endlessly for the right Stack Overflow answer. Now? You can generate working code in seconds. But that creates a new problem: Do you actually understand what you just built? GPT-5.5 feels faster, mor