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Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs

263 points · 195 comments · moneroloop2018

  1. Razengan · · focus · HN ↗
    I said this in different ways before and got shoveled because of the way I said it:

    None of us know how to farm, not even the chefs who cook for us at a restaurant or fast food joint, but we eat every day and nobody's going around making people feel guilty about not knowing how to till soil and sow seeds..

    In programming and other creativity, most people's skills will [have to] change/evolve into managing, directing, dictating, knowing what you want, describing it, and focusing on the end product and iterating,

    instead of wrestling with why the f is a string a pointer to a pointer to a character

    just like we don't track the phases of the moon and seasonal rainfall before we can have a nice salad to eat.

    1. amelius · · focus · HN ↗
      Yeah but should programming issues become "how can I be more friendly to the waiter so they give me what I want?"

      That's not what I want programming to become. I'd choose a different profession then. Maybe I'd become a surgeon because the AI labs haven't cracked robotics yet. And the people in general look up to surgeons and down to IT people, but that's another story.

      1. unified101 · · focus · HN ↗
        Sadly, you will have to choose another profession, and as your example shows, the better paying ones need 10 years of gruntwork to get there.
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