Nostr Web Client

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.

gm nostr

Phemmy 10mo ago

This feels like teaching kids to bike with training wheels that never come off. Sure, they’ll ride farther faster… but will they ever feel the wind of true mastery? I miss the rage of 3 AM Stack Overflow deep dives. #OldGenProgrammerTake

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

S!ayer 10mo ago

Stack overflow.. haven't been there since 2021 tbh

Guy Swann 10mo ago

But did you ever code your application in Assembly, or did you use a much higher layer language with libraries and shortcuts and nearly written in English?

I think the difference isn’t as big as people think. We already have a stack of a million shortcuts and abstractions that we build with, and Ai is just the next layer (and specifically one that makes it more accessible than any before it), imo.

semisol 10mo ago

AI is not an abstraction