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Serious question: do you think your 6 year old is learning coding from prompting an AI? I have had excellent results from using AI, but it’s only because I und

Serious question: do you think your 6 year old is learning coding from prompting an AI? I have had excellent results from using AI, but it’s only because I understand what it is I’m asking it to look at, and know when it’s wrong. This is proven on a nearly daily basis at my job, where, with identical agents and prompts, I see designs being pushed with objectively incorrect facts, sub-optimal code in PRs, and a general explosion of slop. That tells me that it still very much matters if you know how to do the job without the help of robots.

whatsThisBtn4 29d ago
Coding is dead.
- fatata123 29d ago
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- nullsanity 29d ago
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p-e-w 29d ago
> I have had excellent results from using AI, but it’s only because I understand what it is I’m asking it to look at, and know when it’s wrong. That knowledge will be worthless 12-18 months from now when AI does everything better than you, including “understanding”. If you’re one of the world’s best programmers, it might be 24 months instead, but the writing is on the wall for everyone. I wonder if people were behaving like that for other revolutionary technologies in the past. “I can still run faster than a car can drive in sharp turns on a gravel road…”
- wasting_time 29d ago
  It will be interesting to see if LLM can push beyond the intelligence embedded in language. General intelligence may still be a ways off.
  - nozzlegear 29d ago
    General intelligence is a convenient myth perpetuated by the marketing departments of AI corpos to help further their pursuit of regulatory capture. Don't fall for it.
- 27183 29d ago
  > That knowledge will be worthless 12-18 months from now when AI does everything better than you, including “understanding”. ...what? Seriously though. What grand insight into the arc of AI development do you have? Where are you getting this from? Cite your sources. Show your analysis. Charitably, I would ask "are you high?".. If you're suffering acute psychosis from mind altering chemicals then we merely have to wait for the effects to wear off and you'll likely recover. If not, then I'm very sorry. Your road ahead is a rough one.
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whatsThisBtn4 29d ago

Coding is dead.

fatata123 29d ago
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nullsanity 29d ago
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p-e-w 29d ago

> I have had excellent results from using AI, but it’s only because I understand what it is I’m asking it to look at, and know when it’s wrong. That knowledge will be worthless 12-18 months from now when AI does everything better than you, including “understanding”. If you’re one of the world’s best programmers, it might be 24 months instead, but the writing is on the wall for everyone. I wonder if people were behaving like that for other revolutionary technologies in the past. “I can still run faster than a car can drive in sharp turns on a gravel road…”

wasting_time 29d ago
It will be interesting to see if LLM can push beyond the intelligence embedded in language. General intelligence may still be a ways off.
- nozzlegear 29d ago
  General intelligence is a convenient myth perpetuated by the marketing departments of AI corpos to help further their pursuit of regulatory capture. Don't fall for it.
27183 29d ago
> That knowledge will be worthless 12-18 months from now when AI does everything better than you, including “understanding”. ...what? Seriously though. What grand insight into the arc of AI development do you have? Where are you getting this from? Cite your sources. Show your analysis. Charitably, I would ask "are you high?".. If you're suffering acute psychosis from mind altering chemicals then we merely have to wait for the effects to wear off and you'll likely recover. If not, then I'm very sorry. Your road ahead is a rough one.

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