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Before AI, there were also stories of people who had no background in software engineering who wrote entire applications using their fingers. This was called "l
by strken 7mo ago
Before AI, there were also stories of people who had no background in software engineering who wrote entire applications using their fingers. This was called "learning to be a software engineer".
I don't mean to snipe at AI, because it really does seem to have set more people on the path of learning, but I was writing VB5 apps when I was 14 by copying poorly understood bits and pieces from books. Now people are doing basically the same but with less typing and everyone thinks it's a revolution.
- anon-3988 7mo agoI have never seen people learn how to be a software engineer in a weekend tho.
- pamcake 7mo agoAnd neither do you today. There is more to it than "being able to make an entire application", which a novice could also have pulled off in a weekend 10 years ago.
- munksbeer 7mo agoLearning to code and write an application was very hard for most people, because of time and other friction. I know of non-coders who now have applications running for various things they find useful. You might not consider this productive, but they do, so what you think literally doesn't matter to them.