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Comment by halis

5 months ago

While I do find llm’s useful, it’s mostly for simple and repetitive tasks.

In my opinion, they aren’t actually coding anything and have no amount of understanding. They are simply advanced at searching things and pasting back an answer that they scraped online. They can also run simple transformations on those snippets like rename variables. But if you tell it there’s a problem, it doesn’t try to actually solve the problem. It just traverses to the same branch in the tree and tries to give you another similar solution in the tree or if there’s nothing better it will give you the same solution but maybe run a transformation on it.

So, in short, learn how to code or teach your kids how to code. Because going forward, I think it’s going to be more valuable than ever.

> So, in short, learn how to code or teach your kids how to code. Because going forward, I think it’s going to be more valuable than ever.

Teach your kids how to be resourceful and curious. Coding is just a means to an end to do that. Agreed though it’s a great one.