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Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs

263 points · 195 comments · moneroloop2018

  1. agentultra · · focus · HN ↗
    “I built a thing with AI and I don’t understand it. I want to make changes and fix things and have no ability to theorize why it fails or how to fix it.”

    Oh my. See, you have to be able to program it yourself before you can build it with an LLM. Otherwise you have no way of judging the output. AI isn’t going to make you a programmer.

    Learning to program is.

    Interesting article. My advice is to do it the old fashioned, hard way. There’s no royal road to knowledge, skill, and learning.

    1. xboxnolifes · · focus · HN ↗
      We're relearning why you do math by hand before you use a calculator, and why you (usually) dont get internet access during tests even though in the real world you can quickly look things up.
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