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by eagleinparadise 1122 days ago
I am also a non-technical person learning to code with GPT as my mentor.

If non-techie people are willing to pay you $15 for you to write simplified summaries of programming concepts, so they can glance for 15 seconds at the occasional email they receive, then good on you. I can actually see people paying, but let's be real... ChatGPT can do this.

Your value add is that you're just giving a 'path' for someone to follow along since they won't know where to start. But anyone that 'wants' to learn will quickly find a learning path like javascript.info
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cristianMD7 1122 days ago
You're absolutely right, ChatGPT can do this if someone has the curiosity and motivation to ask it for explanations. However, in my experience working with my clients, I haven't seen them utilize it in this way. Just a couple of months ago, when I discussed optimizing the application and mentioned APIs, they had no understanding of how they work. Even if I were to ask them today, I doubt they would have much knowledge on the subject. Would they read a well-formatted email, that they paid to get, to understand what's an API and how it works? I hope yes and I should find out with this project.
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DANmode 1122 days ago
You're overestimating people's abilities to teach themselves.

The amount of individuals I've come across who don't even have instinct to look up vocabulary they don't know is unbelievable.

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capableweb 1122 days ago
Happens all the time, even users on HN sometimes ask very basic questions that could be answered by just looking up a word in a dictionary, or doing a very quick search for more information.

> [...] It's more of a LARP where we pretend we have some [...]

> What's a LARP?

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36104515

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spdustin 1121 days ago
Never underestimate the capacity of people to not bother hitting ChatGPT to explain things to them. We all might have it set as a default in our heads, but I can see this newsletter appealing to lots of managers. The same folks who have word-a-day calendars (or tweet alerts for them) would certainly go for this, imho.
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