[weatherlite]

An experienced dev can work something out even if its not his main stack. I could probably get something very basic done in Swift or Android despite never doing it. Experienced devs are just good in reading documentation and having a general understanding of how things should work.

[layla5alive]

Totally, and it seems like ChatGPT almost does the experienced dev work here for a junior developer - impressive.

But much like you need to cause some stress to a muscle to cause it to grow, junior developers historically needed to get experienced at finding some of the solutions to their own pain to become really experienced developers...

It seems like ChatGPT may cut that form of growth out of the cycle...

I wonder about the implications of this... Junior devs will progress more quickly, but they will also grow less of their own skills and be very reliant on ChatGPT - like an exoskeleton for their development skills.

I guess that will be great for OpenAI if they can charge a hefty monthly fee...

I'd still rather max out my own skills before relying on an exoskeleton (once I've maxed myself out sure, give me the exoskeleton, and let's see what it can do), but maybe I'm too old fashioned...

[RogerL]

replace chat GPT with slide rule and calculator and you have the endless arguments made against calculators in the 70s. change it to typewriters in word processors and you have all the hand ringing in the early '80s about how writing was going to be destroyed by easy copy paste. That isn't a proof that your argument is wrong of course, but it is very suggestive to me.

I typed this with text to speech, another thing we were confidently told would never work

[alphydan]

I hear you. Developers these days. They wear the crutches and exoskeletons of interpreted languages. Real senior devs. only write in assembly. /s

Why is one abstraction more "true", "less creative" or more "strong muscle" than another?