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> – Jeremy Howard, creator of fast.ai
This so much summarizes it.
I wrote shortly about it from a slightly different angle (piano playing) just this morning: https://livingsystems.substack.com/p/playing-freely
Interestingly I’ve learned more about languages and systems and tools I use in the last few years working with agentic coding than I did in 35 years of artisanal programming. I am still vastly superior at making decisions about systems and techniques and approaches than the agentic tools, but they are like a really really well read intern who knows a great deal of detail about errata but have very little experience.…
you have 35 years of experience and have already built up the learning capability and general framework to acquire new knowledge. you know how to use agentic coding as a tool to supplement your work. the juniors who start today don't have that, they overrely on agentic coding and do not know what they don't know
There's no better time to have a curious mind