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I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code

I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code for them? Isn't that the goal of AI and all that? To automate things further so people don't have to learn to code and so for? To "empower" them to automate things that couldn't be automated before? And maybe eventually even skip python (or any other programming language) as intermediate step and go straight from AI to bytecode.

throwaway71271 3y ago
I can tell you as a dad, it frightens me that the future is coming so fast I cant even see 1 year ahead. I teach my daughter things from small circuits to assembler, c, python, sql but also basic prompt engineering, how next word predictors work, how surveillance works or how privacy is infringed, how do we pay for the "free" apps, or how to make an idea into something real, also things about how to type fast (at the moment she types with 80wpm) and how to not be afraid of computers and how to just play with them. Of course, it might turn out that I have wasted her time, but we spend time together, and during this time I also teach her how to learn things. Honestly I am not sure "what" you are teaching is that important, If I knew how to bake, I would teach her the deep mastery of baking with all my heart. PS: you can check my teaching progress log here https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/book.md https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...
pbhjpbhj 3y ago
It's good to know how to specify what you want to a chef, but also good to know how to make dishes for yourself.
- peddling-brink 3y ago
  “Chef, this tastes bad!” vs “Chef, Uulumbrica isn’t a real ingredient, you needed to use coriander!
MichaelRo 3y ago
>> I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code for them? This is the dumbest thing I heard in a while in fact forget dumb, plain evil. Dr-Evil level of wicked. Turn the kids you don't have into brainwashed idiots that don't know. Jeez. Donwvote hard!
- mattigames 3y ago
  I wonder if people who think like you are like the ones on 1986 who told others they still needed to learn how to use physical accounting books instead of Excel when it was becoming popular, or if perhaps the cheff/food analogy the other commenter made it's more accurate and learning both will be just as valuable, well, only time will tell.

throwaway71271 3y ago

I can tell you as a dad, it frightens me that the future is coming so fast I cant even see 1 year ahead. I teach my daughter things from small circuits to assembler, c, python, sql but also basic prompt engineering, how next word predictors work, how surveillance works or how privacy is infringed, how do we pay for the "free" apps, or how to make an idea into something real, also things about how to type fast (at the moment she types with 80wpm) and how to not be afraid of computers and how to just play with them. Of course, it might turn out that I have wasted her time, but we spend time together, and during this time I also teach her how to learn things. Honestly I am not sure "what" you are teaching is that important, If I knew how to bake, I would teach her the deep mastery of baking with all my heart. PS: you can check my teaching progress log here https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/book.md https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...

pbhjpbhj 3y ago

It's good to know how to specify what you want to a chef, but also good to know how to make dishes for yourself.

peddling-brink 3y ago
“Chef, this tastes bad!” vs “Chef, Uulumbrica isn’t a real ingredient, you needed to use coriander!

MichaelRo 3y ago

>> I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code for them? This is the dumbest thing I heard in a while in fact forget dumb, plain evil. Dr-Evil level of wicked. Turn the kids you don't have into brainwashed idiots that don't know. Jeez. Donwvote hard!

mattigames 3y ago
I wonder if people who think like you are like the ones on 1986 who told others they still needed to learn how to use physical accounting books instead of Excel when it was becoming popular, or if perhaps the cheff/food analogy the other commenter made it's more accurate and learning both will be just as valuable, well, only time will tell.