Comment by wcfrobert
13 hours ago
My solution to this is to prioritize. There isn't enough time in a person's life to learn everything anyways.
Selectively pick and struggle through things you want to learn deeply. And let AI spoon-feed you for things you don't care as much about.
I've managed to go my whole career using regex and never fully grokking it, and now I finally feel free to never learn!
I've also wanted to play with C and Raylib for a long time and now I'm confident in coding by hand and struggling with it, I just use LLMs as a backstop for when I get frustrated, like a TA during lab hours.
Same there is a few things I never learned and don't care to learn and ultimately it has no greater value to learn.
Like do I really get anything out of learning another framework or how some particular library does something?
If you're going to deploy what you make with them to production without accidentally blowing your feet off, 100%, be they RegExp or useEffect(), if you can't even tell which way the gun is pointing how are you supposed to know which way the LLM has oriented it?
Picking useEffect() as my second example because it took down CloudFlare, and if you see one with a tell-tale LLM comment attached to it in a PR from your coworkers who are now _never_ going to learn how it works, you can almost be certain it's either unnecessary or buggy.
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