Comment by raccoonhands

the way i see it HN people want to know how things work and are interested in improving their skills but ai is kind of the opposite of that. not trying to be biased here but it's true. the way to get good with ai is to optimize personal workflow, and its less about solving interesting problems along the way. the pursuit of technical knowledge is now less interesting because it's more of an academic calisthenics now more so than it was previously- at least for a certain subset of applications