[bitbasher]

It aligns with my experience and what I have seen. Looking at this through the lenses of writing software; much of "learning" to write software comes down to experience.

When you see an error like, "error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘include’" you know what happened and where to look because you've seen it a hundred times before.

AI takes that away. It's not inherently bad, it's great that it can solve those sort of things for you. However, the second order effects are terrible. You end up never developing that experience. Is this simply evolution of the craft? Is that experience no longer necessary?

I could be wrong, but I believe that experience is necessary and losing it will be a net negative. Furthermore, the reduction of experience will increase dependency on these tools and the companies that provide them.

[AbstractH24]

As someone who has always had some software writing skills, but professionally I've always relied on low-code tools, it's helped me play around more without getting stuck in the mud.

Am I the average person problay not? But for my population I'd say its helped me learn a ton.

Now? Should I have just taken a few classes decades ago? Probaly.