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coldtealast Monday at 6:54 PM3 repliesview on HN

>no need to learn, just ask it to do it for you

And that's how skills die.


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ddalexyesterday at 6:44 AM

And why is this skill important, if a machine can do it ? What's the last time you ploughed your field with oxen ?

charcircuitlast Monday at 7:02 PM

Except with AI models it's possible to make a backup of them creating a permanent artifact of a skill.

CamperBob2last Monday at 7:00 PM

When's the last time you shoed a horse?

The reason I delegate so much of local LLM installation and administration to Claude Code is simply because there's no point learning practical things that will work completely differently in a couple of years, or in memorizing procedures that I'll forget long before I need to perform them again.

No longer having to sweat all the details is a Good Thing, not a Bad Thing.

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