💜 thank you so much for the kind words
how do you usually go about learning a new language? just going through the documentation, messing around and ChatGPT + stackoverflow when in need?
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I've never learned a language since ChatGPT became a thing, I would probably now use it to ask questions as I would a teacher, but I wouldn't rely too heavily in it.
To me the easiest way is to just try to write something, even if dumb and stumble into things.
E.g. one of the first things I wrote as a kid was a hello world that made a typo, so it would write one character at a time "Hello Wrld" and then type Backspace, Backspace until it would add the missing o
It's silly but doing something that dumb teaches you how to delay things, how to loop, conditionals, etc etc 😀
ChatGPT could make experienced software engineers even more valuable if next generation developers have their growth stunted by a dependency on “black box” code generation.
It will all be eventually become prompting in years to come. People who actually fundamentally excel in those fields, are gonna have big advantages over the regular people asking for code
yeah, I think it's useful as a productivity multiplier, but, no matter how much you multiply 0 you always get the same answer