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ai is minting a whole new generation of programmers. They will be dependent on machines yes, but if they never would have got into programming otherwise then maybe it’s not too bad.

There is one thing they will not experience: trial and error and figuring out the right way to do things leading to deep understanding of how to structure programs.

Instead they will just get ai to structure the program, and if something goes wrong they will get the ai to fix the structure. Code structure just becomes an artifact of the generation.

There is a shallowness to this, but maybe programming was never supposed to be a thing that humans dove deep into. It’s way too abstract and difficult to do correctly anyways.

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Ian 10mo ago

Reminds me when I first got into programming. I was in the Air Force and to office I worked in used macromedia' coldfusion. There were a bunch of contractors who had been hit by the dotcom bubble popping. They would all say to me "just wait untill you do 'real' programming like Java" 20+ years later and I never did write a single line of Java but I did learn through trial and error how to structure my applications over time.

If coldfusion hadn't existed maybe I would have never gotten into programming. But I'm here now on #nostr with all you #nostriches #zapping #bitcoin to strangers over #lightning and I understand how all of it works.

In the long run, #AI making it easier for the next Ian to get started, without needing to work in an office of developers, will compound the growth of the userbase of Bitcoin and nostr.

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