The reason I delegate so much of local LLM installation and administration to Claude Code is simply because there's no point learning practical things that will work completely differently in a couple of years, or in memorizing procedures that I'll forget long before I need to perform them again.
No longer having to sweat all the details is a Good Thing, not a Bad Thing.
I am not sure I disagree, and I certainly don't mean to disagree very fervently.
But I think if you want to really learn to ride well, understand horses well, there might be some benefit in learning how to shoe a horse. At some level it should never only be someone else's job.
And why is this skill important, if a machine can do it ? What's the last time you ploughed your field with oxen ?
Except with AI models it's possible to make a backup of them creating a permanent artifact of a skill.
When's the last time you shoed a horse?
The reason I delegate so much of local LLM installation and administration to Claude Code is simply because there's no point learning practical things that will work completely differently in a couple of years, or in memorizing procedures that I'll forget long before I need to perform them again.
No longer having to sweat all the details is a Good Thing, not a Bad Thing.
I am not sure I disagree, and I certainly don't mean to disagree very fervently.
But I think if you want to really learn to ride well, understand horses well, there might be some benefit in learning how to shoe a horse. At some level it should never only be someone else's job.
At the same time, most people can drive without understanding how a car works.
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If I worked with horses for 8 hours a day I imagine the answer would be "recently"
Having to shoe a horse never was a general skill.
Maybe a more apt analogy would be a skill like making fire without a lighter.
Writing software never was never a general skill either though? Or am I misunderstanding your point?
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>When's the last time you shoed a horse?
That skill died too, so what's your point?
Skills sometimes do that. What's your point?
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