alt Hacker NewsWhen'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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WickyNilliams • last Monday at 7:19 PM
If I worked with horses for 8 hours a day I imagine the answer would be "recently"
psychoslave • last Monday at 7:12 PM
Having to shoe a horse never was a general skill.
Maybe a more apt analogy would be a skill like making fire without a lighter.
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coldtea • last Monday at 9:02 PM
>When's the last time you shoed a horse?
That skill died too, so what's your point?
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I am not sure I disagree, and I certainly don't mean to disagree very fervently.
But I think if you want to really learn to ride well, understand horses well, there might be some benefit in learning how to shoe a horse. At some level it should never only be someone else's job.