Comment by qsera
21 hours ago
>You got one of these thingies and thought you could do anything..
Why did you think that? Did you see people use it like that? anything? really?
For me, computers became intriguing after I started programming in BASIC. Not before that. Before that I was just curious about what the big deal about these things are...
In the literature, there would be passages that describe how computer followed "instructions", but I never could make sense of that or understood what an "instruction" was. So it didn't really sway me either way. I just tried hard and remained curious to understand what this "instruction" was and how I could give it to computers...
May be your falling the same way for LLMs now..
I don't know probably because I was eight years old.
Good point - what might become fun and engaging at 10 or 11 could be more frustrating at 8, especially on your own.
As near as I can remember, my first real programming experience was when I was eight years old, writing basic programs on an Apple IIc at school in 3rd grade. (I was too poor to afford my own computer until my senior year of college). It was awesome.
I have never found computers disappointing, and I have spent most of my career/life learning about them - from processor design through to distributed systems. Mostly I've been disappointed in the disparity between the number of interesting things I'd like to do, and the number of lifetimes I have available to me.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.