alt Hacker News> All of a sudden I have seen people do some really impressive stuff with DWARF files, eBPF, custom network drivers, custom crypto and really old computing hardware. Many of these things were previously off-limits for lots of developers. In some cases (eg: crypto) you were even pushed away because those things were intentionally gatekept by the people in the know.
Before at least some of us were forced to understand stuff, because without understanding it was not possible to do stuff that we really wanted to do, and some those got passionate and kept digging, and some of us even made even better stuff based on their experience.
Now no one needs to understand anything, and now we will never have better stuff.
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>Now no one needs to understand anything, and now we will never have better stuff.
Even worsr in that those starting out during this time, wouldn't even understand enough to guide and evaluate the AI output, or even even to know what to ask for.
I'm not saying you're entirely wrong, but LLMs can actually be a way to create even better things than those better things. I've seen it in action.
Before: millions of web programmers and only an elite few that dug all the way down to metal
After: millions of vibe coders and only an elite few that dig all the way down to metal
I'm not sure the world will be all that different. The people who want to dig will still exist, they'll just be using excavators instead of shovels.
> now we will never have better stuff.
I disagree. Some of us love tinkering and learning and experimenting. AI can help with that. People like us will always do it. Hobbyist will continue to innovate even if others don’t.