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> Atrophy. I've already noticed that I am slowly starting to atrophy my ability to write code manually... > Largely due to all the little mostly syntactic detai
by oxag3n 9mo ago
> Atrophy. I've already noticed that I am slowly starting to atrophy my ability to write code manually...
> Largely due to all the little mostly syntactic details involved in programming, you can review code just fine even if you struggle to write it.
Until you struggle to review it as well. Simple exercise to prove it - ask LLM to write a function in familiar programming language, but in the area you didn't invest learning and coding yourself. Try reviewing some code involving embedding/SIMD/FPGA without learning it first.
- sleazebreeze 9mo agoPeople would struggle to review code in a completely unfamiliar domain or part of the stack even before LLMs.
- chrisjj 9mo agoNo, because they wouldn't be so foolish as to try it.
- piskov 9mo agoThat’s why you need to write code to learn it. No-one has ever learned skill just by reading/observing
- sponaugle 9mo ago"No-one has ever learned skill just by reading/observing" - Except of course all of those people in Cosmology who, you know, observe.
- direwolf20 9mo agowhat skill do they have? making stars? no they are skilled at observing, which is what they do.
- sponaugle 9mo agoI think understanding stellar processes and then using that understanding to theorize about other observations is a skill. My point was that observing can be a fantastic way to build a skill.. not all skills, but certainly some skills. Learning itself is as much an observation as a practice.
- AstroBen 9mo agoHow would you find yourself in that situation before AI?