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Judgement and technical skill go hand in hand. Technology merely moves the boundary of what is considered judgement, and what is considered technical skill. I
by lordnacho 1y ago
Judgement and technical skill go hand in hand. Technology merely moves the boundary of what is considered judgement, and what is considered technical skill.
I know someone who wrote programs in the punch-card era. Back then, technical skill meant being diligent and thoughtful enough that you avoided most bugs when writing the program. If you screwed this up, you had to wait for another time slot. What does this mean for the complexity of programs you could write? Well, it means you are quite limited. You can't build judgement about things above what is now considered a very basic program.
I learned to program before the AI era that seems to be nascent. Technical skill means things like being able to write programs in python and c++, getting many computers to work together, being able to find hints when something goes wrong, and so on. Judgement now covers things like how a large swarm of programs interact, which was not really in scope for punch-card guy.
Now AI arrives, and it appears that we are free from technical skill problems. Indeed, it does fix a lot of my little syntax issues, but actually it just moves the goalposts. There's soon going to be no excuse for spending time working out the syntax for a lambda function, you'll be expected to generate a much more complicated product, for which you will need an even higher overview to say you are providing judgement.