Comment by fch42
3 days ago
It won't make it impossible for junior engineers to learn.
It will simply reduce the amount of opportunities to learn (and not just for juniors), by virtue of companies' beancounters concluding "two for one" (several juniors) doesn't return the same as "buy one get one free" (existing staff + AI license).
I dread the day we all "learn from AI". The social interaction part of learning is just as important as the content of it, really, especially when you're young; none of that comes across yet in the pure "1:1 interaction" with AI.
I learnt programming on my own, without any social interaction involved. In fact, I loved programming because it does not involve any social interaction.
Programming has become more of a "social game" in the last 15 years or so. AI is a new superpower for people like me, bringing balance to the Force.
To me, LLMs are just a different kind of social interaction I mostly don’t want, tedious and frustrating.
But it is not a social interaction. An LLM is a machine.
I think there is also a big difference between being forced to use an LLM in a certain way, and being able to completely design your interaction with the LLM yourself. The former I imagine can be indeed tedious and frustrating, the latter is just miraculous.
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