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> what was the point of it all if i didn’t learn a thing? As a senior software engineer, AI still surprises me with concepts I didn't know about from time to t
by prophesi 1y ago
> what was the point of it all if i didn’t learn a thing?
As a senior software engineer, AI still surprises me with concepts I didn't know about from time to time. I think spending the time to grok the code it generates is about as invaluable as the code's functionality.
As in the past, however, nothing's stopping people from copy-pasting code found online and never improving their internal toolkit. AI will not only uphold that status quo, but amplify it exponentially.
- ToucanLoucan 1y ago> As a senior software engineer, AI still surprises me with concepts I didn't know about from time to time. Example?
- prophesi 1y agoThere are ample opportunities to learn more about software development regardless of experience. It's a bit of an n+1 problem. If you're just building CRUD apps, I can understand how one might plateau in their knowledge, but even that can have a broad scope. But for a recent example, I learned to stop worrying and love macros in Elixir. Even `defmodule` and `def/defp` are themselves macros.