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> Your blend of comment was also directed at the likes of Google and StackOverflow. Apparently SO is not a problem anymore And it kind of was a problem. There
by nerdponx 2y ago
> Your blend of comment was also directed at the likes of Google and StackOverflow. Apparently SO is not a problem anymore
And it kind of was a problem. There was an underclass of people who simply could not get anything done if it wasn't already done for them in a Stackoverflow answer or a blog post or (more recently and bafflingly) a Youtube video. These people never learned to read a manual and spent their days flailing around wondering why programming seemed so hard for them.
Now with AI there will be more of these people, and they will make it farther in their careers before their lack of ability will be noticeable by hiring managers.
- eMPee584 2y ago.. for the brief period of time before machines will take care of the whole production cycle. Which is a great opportunity btw to drive forward a transition to a post-monetary, non-commercial post-scarcity open-source open-access commons economy.
- stereolambda 2y agoI would even say there's a type of comment along the lines of "we've been adding Roentgens for decades, surely adding some more will be fine so stop complaining". As a second-order effect, I think there's a decline in expected docs quality (of course depends on the area). Libraries and such don't expect people to read through them, so they are spotty and haphazard, with only some random things mentioned. No wider overviews and explanations, and somewhat rightly so, why try to write it if (nearly) no one will read it. So only tutorials and Q&A sites remain besides of API dumps.