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I am kind of amazed how negative the comments are here, especially on HN. Learning to hack something together in high school using the latest technology (vacuum tubes, radios, microprocessors, web/javascript) has been a common theme in the tech world for generations. With LLMs and online tutorials, this isn't even a difficult suggestion. Do people think learning new tech is somehow wasted effort?
I am kind of amazed how negative the comments are here, especially on HN. Learning to hack something together in high school using the latest technology (vacuum tubes, radios, microprocessors, web/javascript) has been a common theme in the tech world for generations. With LLMs and online tutorials, this isn't even a difficult suggestion. Do people think learning new tech is somehow wasted effort?
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This seems like a much more interesting question to me. Telling other people's children what to do is easy and basically doesn't have any downside to being wrong. With your own children things are a bit different. So: what are people here with school age children telling their own kids about the future? If their kids ask, what kind of careers would they encourage them to pursue, assuming they have the skills and inte…
We've wronged an entire generation by pushing "learn to code".
Wealth inequality is a huge factor in our ability to excel.
For the AI part, I recently started working through this CMU course on Modern AI which teaches you how to build an LLM from scratch. It was posted on HN a few months ago and has been great: https://modernaicourse.org/
If anyone has other recommendations for beginners, please share them!