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It was always thus, and will continue to be. The scale may change, but that is likely just because more people code. You couldn't do X but now you almost can!
by IanCal 2y ago
It was always thus, and will continue to be.
The scale may change, but that is likely just because more people code. You couldn't do X but now you almost can!
> Now of course people learning the traditional way have these same problems, but they’re debugging code they wrote,
Really? They've not copied and pasted something from SO? They're that early in their coding journey?
> It’s almost a little sad. If they just take the time to actually learn what they’re doing they’ll be able to accomplish so much more.
Leading a horse to water, etc. but llms are excellent at being a patient teacher of basic coding.
Frankly they can be excellent at lots of things people keep saying they're bad at but some seem to refuse to learn how to use them as a tool. It reminds me of watching people be unable to use Google in the past - how to not just ask a question but search for information.