Comment by skybrian
17 days ago
I think for beginners, it might be more like a roguelike? You go off in the wrong direction entirely and die, but you learn something and start again.
Since we have version control, you can restart anywhere if you think it's a good place to fork from. I like greenfield development, but I suspect that there are going to be a lot more forks from now on, much like the game modding scene.
The thing about beginners (and I'm sure we can all relate to them from our past) is they won't really know which path is good or bad. In roguelike, when you make a mistake, you kinda know why you made a mistake and how you got there. For beginners, even if you have version control, you never developed that "sense of what feels right". Or "there HAS TO BE a simpler way of doing it, i just have to ask" sense. I have no idea how to describe it, but I think you might get what I mean?
Well, at some point you'd learn by maxing out your credit card on your cloud bill, or getting hacked and losing all your users' data, or...
Companies with money-making businesses are gonna find themselves in an interesting spot when the "vibe juniors" are the vast majority of the people they can find to hire. New ways will be needed to reduce the risk.
> Well, at some point you'd learn by maxing out your credit card on your cloud bill, or getting hacked and losing all your users' data, or...
...go to jail?