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by ActionHank 666 days ago
Just leave it to run itself out.

Right now the sales pitch is "magical machine spits out any code you can imagine and it will all just work". This isn't the case now and I doubt it will be the case in the future.

It will get really good and make things faster and more easily, but you will still need to know how to use it to be effective and you will still need to understand the underlying tech to be the most effective.

It's like carpentry and powertools. Carpenters and slap together a whole house in a day, a big part being due to power tools. There are still carpenters who are all about the craft and traditional ways and they make amazing pieces of furniture and there are those who need to build houses, fast. Finally there are those who dip into carpentry and realise that it is a whole lot of new knowledge and a degree of understanding that was invisible to them before trying.

If you don't know what you're doing a power tool won't make you a great carpenter.