My son wants to do the same work as me and I must say that when I try to teach him the basics like I learned myself, it's seems useless regarding AI capabilities.
I would have said: Focus more on the fundamental principles of programming and security, as well as organization and the ability to understand a subject, in order to provide the AI with the right context. But even that seems complicated to me for someone new to the field.
However, I’ll take one thing away from this: Use AI to learn (with caution). It’s a fantastic training tool—even for senior developers, as long as you’re willing to not let it take over your brain.
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Well put. The step to AI is a little like the step to using an IDE. It simplifies and automate a various bottlenecks. But when the IDE starts randomly failing, you need to call on that guy that knows how to work without the IDE.
which IDE are you using that randomly fails?
Visual Studio Professional/Enterprise. It's gotten a lot better to be fair - especially with the dotnet sdk - but back in the day I'd often have to get myself out of scrapes by manually editing .sln files, deleting bin or Properties directories etc..., restarting the VS and hoping for the best. And sometimes just nothing worked and I'd end up pinging the only guy in the company that knows how to solve those types of issues, because he knows what the IDE is actually doing under the covers.
I still get issues like hanging while running unit tests, repeatedly having to enter credentials for my office's nuget feed, and a bunch of other stuff that sometimes needs a full reboot.
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#65People who think AI can replace programmers usually underestimate how much programming knowledge is needed just to know when the AI is wrong.
AI is much more powerful in the hands of someone who understands software than someone who doesn't.
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#66I am a software greenhorn using Claude to build something and there's alot of background knowledge needed. But I think Claude makes the process alot easier.
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#70We are talking about your brain here, learn as much programming as you can. Leslie Lamport has mentioned programming is not even coding, do not Rush, as Peter Norvig has also mentioned in one of his articles. If coding is the act of typing valid syntax for a compiler or interpreter to be happy then you can be sure this thing will change, at any given point of time if you need to communicate instructions to a digital computer you will also need a clear thinking too, even if you are using natural language to communicate those instructions. Beginners and advanced users need computational thinking.