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throwawaybackag • today at 10:23 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Not denying that- what Im saying is the effort with AI is several magnitudes less than without AI, and skips the learning of any actual skills.


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dansquizsoft • today at 3:25 PM

"Actual" skills?

Skills that, unfortunately, are likely to become obsolete very soon.

Taking the logical conclusion of your argument - we should also be teaching our kids how to fashion stone tools, because by moving straight to machined tools they are also missing out on "actual" skills...

Ironically, a kid that does fashion a tool out of stone will learn the skill of toolmaking deeper (in some respects, all other things being equal) than a kid that doesn't. A few years ago I created my own computer out of logic chips, this taught me a heck of a lot as well about how computer hardware and low level software works under the hood, more so than most of my software engineer peers, but I am under no illusions that doing this was required to be productive in the modern conception of this role, or society at large...