[MattGrommes]

I had a similar thought the other day when playing with Deepseek-coder. I asked it to do a problem I had just figured in a system I didn't know (opencv). The code deepseek gave was basically the same as what I had figured out, which I was pretty impressed by. But then I thought that if I had just used that code as is, it probably would have worked but I wouldn't have learned anything about opencv.

These new tools can be very valuable but I worry about people not using the tools to maximum effect long-term, in favor of short term success of a certain kind.

[gorbachev]

> But then I thought that if I had just used that code as is, it probably would have worked but I wouldn't have learned anything about opencv.

A large majority of people would be very, very happy with this. I don't have to know how to fix my car to drive it and thank God for that!

I think it's wonderful that LLMs enable someone to create useful things without understanding what's happening under the hood.

I also hope those people don't claim to be / won't be hired as (senior) software engineers, though.

[MattGrommes]

I agree with that. I think part of moving out of junior status is thinking about maintenance and fixing bugs, which will be much harder without the underlying learning.