Comment by globular-toast
7 days ago
> And you can do this for anything
Anything that's been done before. Otherwise we'd probably start with making nuclear fusion work, then head off into the stars...
You've always been able to read books. What you're talking about is skipping the slow learning step and instead generating a mashup of tons of prior art. I don't think it helps you learn. It sounds like it's for things you specifically don't want to learn.
Congrats, you now have a job similar to a factory worker turning a handle every day. Gone is that feeling of growth, that feeling of "getting it" and seeing new realms of possibility in front of you. Now all you can do is beg for more grease on your handle.
Nah. We’re literally on “hacker news”. Frankly a lot of the hacking ethos has always been cobbling stuff together building upon the works of others that you don’t really understand.
Learning by getting something to work and tweaking it is massively more effective than grinding against a wall of impassable errors while you’re just trying to get started. You don’t become a good programmer by reading a book.