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Is it still worth learning to code?
- kermatt 7mo agoWhen I was in early school grades, a common question in math classes was "Why do we have to learn this, when we can just use a calculator?" The best answer was "How do you know when the calculator is wrong?", for example when a miskey was entered. Same goes for AI, except knowing enough to spot mistakes or hallucinations takes a foundation knowledge.
- psychedare 7mo agoYeah agreed
- qwertyman999 7mo agoImagine whole businesses built in code no one who owns it understands
- psychedare 7mo agoThere are probably already hundreds out there
- psychedare 7mo agoThe cyber risks alone…
- salawat 7mo agoI'd love to know who everyone thinks is going to be responsible for creating new language primitives to train AI tools on if no one learns the fundamentals of programming anymore. Someone has to make the primitives.
- protagonist_hn 7mo agoUnless RL unleashed models come up with their own primitives. But even then if we don’t have anyone left who understands the fundamentals we are up sh*t creek anyway
- genxy 7mo agoYou can't effectively use the tools if you can't understand and direct what they should do. What means to learn to code will shift, it will be a shallower knowledge. But a little bit of coding skill goes a long long way when controlling coding agents. Learning to read code, and ask important algorithmic and architectural questions about the systems one is building will be key. Instead of raw production, the role will shift to curation and editorializing.
- protagonist_hn 7mo agoAnd if people don’t have understanding they won’t even know the questions to ask
- stefanos82 7mo agoProfessionally? I would avoid it. Personally? For hobby, 100% I would, but at my own pace.