It's actually not that hard to learn new things. You can just learn things.
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I just learned it's easy to learn new things!
Just learn it. 🙆
… when you are young and healthy. So learn new things while it is still easy
especially with AI. Imo the whole agentic thing is going to be less impactful than human accelerated learning with AI.
Very few are learning with AI.
Most are letting AI do their "homework" and learn :zeroPercent:
Also, practical skills are harder to learn with AI, as it distracts you and blinds you to your need of just practicing and finding mentors that actually have the skill.
yes. Even with coding, I find reinventing the wheel the most useful thing to learn deep concepts.
DHH on Lex Fridman dropped great takes on the topic. One was the analogy with playing the guitar: no amount of watching YT tutorials will teach you how to play. You have to use your fingers, change the cords, make it sound the way you like.
Many great painters understood this, for example Van Gogh. I read the collection of the letters he sent to Theo his brother, where he revealed he made his own colours, not just because it was cheaper and he was broke, but to learn the underlying concepts beneath his profession.
100%
this is why i write a lot of encoders. using other people's libraries can solve the problem also but very often they are general purpose solutions that are slow at doing something specific, or cumbersome.
if i was a painter i would have a big shelf full of pigment powders and paint bases and mix my own palette with little scales to measure up proportions and all that also.
if you are familiar with how color process printing works, you will understand that the gamut of colors available from a standard color set may not include patches of the spectrum and once you've seen side by side the same image rendered with those colors present, you understand the difference. 4 color CMYK can render most of the spectrum but there are 6 color schemes that include numerous other colors (like orange or purple or deep blue) and they also look more vivid.
so, yeah, reinventing the wheel, just talking about painting, is worth doing if you want to make something specific. these things can seem like gimmicks but they do add value to your product.
" these things can seem like gimmicks but they do add value to your product."
yes, and they make one more competent in his profession, which is the most valuable thing in the long term
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