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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. derpyzza · · focus · HN ↗
      ...string's aren't a pointer to a pointer to a character. they're pointers to characters directly.

      maybe you need to wrestle with that concept some more...

      1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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