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by spamizbad 45 days ago
The statement is absurd because the skill curve for AI tooling is so small you can can mess around for a day or two and get "caught up" with the zeitgeist. And what you need to know to get started is actually far less these days than it was 1.5 years ago thanks to all the product refinement that took place in the space.

The only real risk is that today there's an expectation from employers that you've got some AI experience under your belt you can articulate. But you can get that experience today.
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scrumbledober 45 days ago
6-12 months ago I felt like i was constantly behind the curve with all the different things people were doing to get more out of their claude code. as the year has progressed though, all of those features keep making their way into vanilla claude code, at a faster and faster rate. Now someone working on the bleeding edge is using things that i'll be using without having to think about them a month from now. It has really reduced my anxiety of being left behind.
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Unmotivator2677 45 days ago
That's the thing, any "advancement" you might discover will be integrated into main tools soon enough, I am going to say that in fact, you probably shouldn't even learn them before they are integrated. Helps you filter through all the noise and avoid wasting time on learning something that isn't going to take off.
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mlinhares 45 days ago
You're discounting the "being able to write properly and put ideas into inteligible text" skill piece here.
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avgDev 45 days ago
Most people who have been programming for a while should have those skills. If they don't then learning AI is not the issue but communication is.
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skydhash 45 days ago
Most good programmers are good at writing. If you’re capable at simultaneously writing instructions for a dumb abstract machine and have those instructions being understandable for humans, you’re clearly good at expressing at least technical ideas.
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Unmotivator2677 45 days ago
Yeah, never had a problem with explaining to AI what I want from it. That doesn't mean AI always follows what I tell it to do ...
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sumedh 45 days ago
Which AI are you using?
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