Examples of comments:
“It feels like a cheat code to me. It feels like I’m not going to be as smart as the people who are currently in the field that I want to be in — because of AI.”
“We’re going to be dealing with the leftovers and downsides to what the politicians and others are doing [about AI regulation], and we don’t get a say in it,” he said.
I have plenty of friends who graduated as computer scientists or cybersecurity professionals, and a few over at UNSW said that there was an intentional emphasis on learning skills that won’t make them disposable - learning low level languages like C and some basic assembly language (which is not far from 1s and 0s) with minimal library use, so that they can do the debugging and security auditing that will stump others who just learned JavaScript or Python for quick scripting (useful languages in their own rights). Compare to the thousands of city people who couldn’t survive without electrical appliances or delivery services, because we’re so used to that advanced infrastructure that we couldn’t survive in the bush for a month. (not a great analogy here, since our power grid is far more dependable than most programmers)
I think we’re seeing a similar situation referenced here. The shortcut comes with a long cost.
I have the opposite problem. I’m good at C and I have a mind for data structures. But I can’t stand all these libraries! Vue is the worst of the lot.