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How about this - if you're a student, focus on learning how computers work. You are not going to school to be a programmer. You are going to be a computer scien
by wibbily 2y ago
How about this - if you're a student, focus on learning how computers work. You are not going to school to be a programmer. You are going to be a computer scientist. The latter begets the former. If your only thought as a cs student is "code output" you have already fucked up, and even if chatgpt can write it for you, it's not gonna understand it for you.
LLMs might replace the bootcamp boys and dilettantes but there will always be room for people who know shit. If that isn't you, make it you.
- mike_hock 2y agoTo maintain any kind of project, you need a set of inputs that a human can understand and manipulate to produce desired results, and a build chain that reproducibly produces output from the inputs. The inputs were traditionally source code, but sure, we could in principle use prompts for an LLM as the primary inputs, which then produces source code that gets fed to the rest of the build chain. But editing the source code produced by the LLM is a non-starter because then you're editing build artifacts.