Comment by lukan
18 hours ago
"A junior engineer who has only ever used LLMs to write code and create architectures does not just not have that experience but also won't acquire it."
My ego tends to agree, that how can they be ever competent, if they have not endured the same hardships as I had crunching trough problems and getting allmost lost in the details.
But I rather suspect, they will turn out fine. I know LLMs are great for me to learn and I think the young generation will learn what they need to learn to get the job done.
How can they learn hard things if they have an infinite number of easy things to do? This is a middlebrow version of doomscrolling disease.
Most people have trouble not peeking at the answers. Look at Stack Exchange's long success.
Because keeping all the easy things coordinated and understanding the big picture is still a hard task yet unsolved by LLM's? But yeah, who knows what happens once that change. I assume even after the singularity, it still makes sense, that we train some people to know what is going on ..
How well do you think someone will understand fractions or trigonometry if they always punch their math homework into Wolfram alpha?
The increasing pervasiveness of technology in US education has not produced more capable graduates.