sommerfeld @sommerfeld - 22d
Until a few months ago I was extremely skeptical of AI, thought it was overhyped, etc. I started using it more and more for work and it changed my mind. It's still overhyped but I now recognize how transformative it is. It won't replace all intelectual human labor as many claim. It's a useful tool, a companion. In the 60s/70s, the best programmers were the ones that could memorize more and consult reference manuals faster. After the 00s, the best programmers are the ones that can google the answers faster. Now, in the 20s, the best programmers will be the best prompters. It's important to recognize paradigm shifts. Adapt or die.
What is mediocre about using the most efficient tools available at the time? Just doing that is not the only indicator of quality of course, but that is besides the point. If you take 2 devs with the same knowledge level and skill, the one that uses the best tool will have an edge and will outpace the other.
Silberengel @Silberengel - 22d
The problem is that newbies are going straight to AI. Continuation of the problem that newbies go straight to JavaScript. They aren't learning the fundamentals, and that will delay their development as engineers, in the mid-term, even if they get a faster start. Agree that it's a powerful tool, tho.
I legit spend so much time working on AI stuff and talking about AI stuff all friggin day, at work, at play, even over dinner with my husband, that I avoid personally using it like the plague because I feel like it's coming out of my friggin ears and I'm developing an allergy.
Of course, we can probably agree that most of the straight-to-AI-skip-the-Assembler devs would probably not be able to understand the fundamentals, so I guess it's an irrelevant point I'm making. At any rate, it reminds me of how "everyone could build their own website" back in the 90s. In the end, building the best websites is actually really, really hard because it requires a lot of intuition and maintenance, and better tools just made the best devs even bester, and they focused on building on the tools.
Like people who get a car and give up walking, and eventually can barely walk, as someone else said recently.
