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Please stop pushing the "getting left behind" fear. Prompting is not a skill, there is nowhere it's going that it can leave anyone behind. The "skill" of prompt
by davebren 5mo ago
Please stop pushing the "getting left behind" fear. Prompting is not a skill, there is nowhere it's going that it can leave anyone behind. The "skill" of prompting is 100% dependent on one's skill programming, and in a day the skilled programmer will be able to surpass the guy that's been vibecoding for a decade.
- mholm 5mo agoI've seen a lot of people hop into prompting with no trouble, and people who have been using it for years that get bad results. Ultimately, prompting skill is just downstream of technical communication skill. It's probably a good way to practice, if you pay close attention to what you forgot to specify, and what the model got wrong.
- davebren 5mo agoProgramming is the ultimate exercise in technical communication, even if we remove the aspect of communicating about the software to other programmers or non-programmers. It's not just communicating to the machine. The architecture, organization, whitespace, naming, it's all about technical communication.