For a few years now, parents have been helping their children learn important IT skills by sending them to coding camps for kids. However, some may be wondering if this will still be the case a few years from now as the AI revolution gathers pace.

Of all the human jobs that might be taken over by the machines, coding is believed by some to be one of them, with AI devices doing this faster and without error. However, this vision of the future may not be true. Instead, coding teaching will still have a role, but, one expert has said, it will be different.

Stefania Druga, a research scientist at Google Deepmind, told Business Insider the way forward is for children to learn to use coding along with AI to “co-create”, rather than to cheat.

Many youngsters are using AI to help answer questions, something Ms Druga said has to be wrong, reasoning that: “First of all, if an AI can solve a test, it's the wrong test." She said an “over-reliance” on AI will lead to a lack of critical thinking skills.

She said the kind of coding and AI teaching going forward must build this in. Rather than just asking an AI tool such as Alexa for an answer, they would develop an understanding of why Alexa gives a certain answer.

Ms Druga has designed codes herself that aim to lead children down the path of inquiry rather than spoon-feeding them answers.

She argued that the value of coding education going forward will be about using it to create transferable skills, so that it doesn’t equip them for jobs that may not exist when they reach adulthood, but instead give them skills that will help them adjust to new developments as and when they arise.

These comments come as various AI initiatives are rapidly changing coding.

One of the latest developments is ‘vibe coding’, described by Tech Radar as a form of coding where individuals develop their own roadmaps and use AI tools to help develop them, rather than agreeing on a plan with colleagues beforehand.