[swatcoder]

Well, were it possible, I'd say go back in time and study your tools so that you're not spending the journeyman period of your career ricocheting between tutorials and faqs.

Failing that, read the documentation. Failing that, stand up a quick experiment.

Somehow, we survived before ChatGPT and even before saturated question boards. Those strategies are still available to you and well worth learning

[linsomniac]

The "good old days weren't always good". I'm tired of either limiting myself to the information I have on the top of my head, the LLMs are really helping allow me to be creative and stretch out to do things that are just beyond my bread and butter, or things that I do infrequently.

[bigfudge]

Exactly this. I -could- become an expert in the intricacies of every tool I touch, or I could use chat gpt and move on to solving the next problem.

[toomuchtodo]

LLMs are the great equalizer of our time.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

I see your point but the world changes so fast. Back in my day you just needed to learn C, understand algorithms and so on and then you could get deeper in an area or two. Today, you need to understand and be able to proficiently use so many technologies that you can feel lost.

And this is what happens when, say, you loose a job you've been doing for 10-15 years. You need to re-learn the world. And a lifetime is not enough to do it the way we used to do it.

[cpursley]

Yeah, not all of us have memories that work like that. I’ve studied my tools but often forget the little details. My productivity has increased since GPT has come out.

[bigfudge]

Stuff changes too. There are things that are worth learning and being fluent in. Regex, sql. But even then there are always edge cases or weirdness that someone has solved before. LLMs are just much better for this than wading through forum posts.

[EnergyAmy]

We also survived before the internet and indoor plumbing and fire, and yet life is so much better now.

[mritchie712]

I'd go straight to the experiment, create the tables on a local postgresdb and try to get it to work.