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students will only need AI skills for the next 2-3 years, after which point AGI will render the "need" to have any skills meaningless as it would be to expect students to have woodworking or metalsmithing skills
I'm so, soooo sick of people claiming so certainly AGI will be there in X time. You don't know. Nobody knows. Anyone claiming they know are full of shit. Stop speaking in absolutes.
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Some people are just really good without AI so I wouldn't immediately hard pass on them.
Perhaps if they are super specialised in one narrow niche. The moment they need to write code in a new language/framework/algorirhms/domain, they benefit tremendously from chatgpt. Or even just redacting their documentation entries. I’d say the main devs that don’t benefit is mid-level ones. Good enough to do some programming, but not good enough to figure out how to benefit from gpt.
Anything javascript related it's probably fine tho.
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I still remember people said fusion energy will be available in a few decades, in a few decades ago.
On the other hand, we actually do have a computer, with access to all knowledge, in our pockets, right now. EDIT. The point of the comment is not to say that you will in fact have all knowledge available. There's guidelines about how you're supposed to read here on HN. The point was that this device that people could only dream of a few decades ago actually became available. Maybe it's worth reminding people that you…
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On the other hand, we actually do have a computer, with access to all knowledge, in our pockets, right now. EDIT. The point of the comment is not to say that you will in fact have all knowledge available. There's guidelines about how you're supposed to read here on HN. The point was that this device that people could only dream of a few decades ago actually became available. Maybe it's worth reminding people that you…
... Totally unrelated to what I said.