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I would actually really recommend people who are using coding agents full time to make AI brakes for your weekend projects. Think of it like a small break to ta
by dgellow 2mo ago
I would actually really recommend people who are using coding agents full time to make AI brakes for your weekend projects. Think of it like a small break to take the time to reconnect to the code and keep your brain muscles intact, a bit like a professional cyclist going for a casual ride in the forest to experience what they don’t experience anymore in their professional life.
- giancarlostoro 2mo agoFor me its quite the opposite. My employer is too afraid to commit to any of it. Meanwhile, I've built more stable software for myself and my personal computing needs of higher quality and in faster turnaround times. I've also seen how insanely good at doing a total rewrite / modernization the models can be.
- dgellow 2mo agoI specified „people using coding agents full time“
- giancarlostoro 2mo agoFully aware, just tired of hearing about AI in extremes. Theres some of us who just want to use it in a useful way.
- mapontosevenths 2mo agoI see where you're coming from, but I can't help being reminded of my youth when teachers would admonish me "YoU wOn'T aLwaAYs haVe A CalCulator in yOuR poCKet!" Now the entire world has a calculator in their pocket, and all that wrote memorization not only made me hate math as a child, it was a giant waste of time. I suspect that one day we'll look back on advice like no-AI Fridays exactly as modern readers would react to "Punch-card only Tuesdays" in a modern enterprise.
- dgellow 2mo agoMore like: take some time without your phone. Something I assume everybody here would agree is a sane thing to do. Not using a calculator as a kid for math is pretty important, because the goal is to develop intuition. Same for software, playing music, learning a language. You have to keep some level of friction to develop and keep your intuition
- alexslobodnik 2mo agoI get consistent, though tiny, value from having memorized the multiplication table up to 12.
- retsibsi 2mo ago> Now the entire world has a calculator in their pocket, and all that wrote memorization not only made me hate math as a child, it was a giant waste of time. I dunno, I think this example kind of works in the opposite direction. If we're talking about memorising tables of logarithms or something, then yeah that was a complete waste of time. But a lot of the stuff kids would like to skip because calculators can do it is the absolute basics. IMO it is still important to have a solid grasp of arithmetic, useful to have enough trigonometry that you intuitively understand where it can be useful, and so on. (Much more so if you want to leave open the possibility of studying further mathematics.) And for people to whom these things don't come naturally, you really need to drill it a bit in order to develop the conceptual understanding. I don't know exactly where this does and doesn't apply to programming/CS, though. I would like to think that a lot of the fundamentals will remain useful, but maybe that will only be true for a few specialised workers and self-motivated hobbyists.
- QuadmasterXLII 2mo agoHow much rote memorization did it take to harm you? the addition of 1 digit numbers is kind of mandatory to function in everyday life, the multiplication table is at most (8*9)/2 36 facts.
- cornel_io 2mo agoI'm guessing you've never been exposed to Kumon...
- VCFundedGenYer 2mo agoThis reads like a satire comment.
- dgellow 2mo agoMind expanding?
- smy20011 2mo agoNah, if you not feeling fun coding a project, just use your free time on other stuff that you interested in.