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You're right, we only have centuries of humans doing hard things that require ongoing practice to stay sharp. Ask anyone who does something you can't fake, like
by dbalatero 1y ago
You're right, we only have centuries of humans doing hard things that require ongoing practice to stay sharp. Ask anyone who does something you can't fake, like playing the piano, what taking months off does to their abilities. To be fair, you can get them back much faster than someone that never had the skills to begin, but skills absolutely atrophy if you are not actively engaged with them.
- danielbln 1y agoMy assembly skills have atrophied terribly, and that's ok.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoUsing LLMs is not moving up a level of abstraction, it is removing your own brain from the abstraction altogether
- danielbln 1y agoI wish, but as it stands right now LLMs have to be driven and caged ruthlessly. Conventions, architecture, interfaces, testing, integration. Yes, you can YOLO it and just let it cook up _something_, but that something will an unmaintainable mess. So I'm removing my brain from the abstraction level of code (as much as I dare), but most definitely not from everything else.
- dsadfjasdf 1y agowe will all become project managers. That's not removing your brain from problem