[ryan_n]

Generating things and going through the process of learning how it works and making it from scratch are very, very different. The feeling each leaves you with are also very different. If the only thing you care about is output, then yea maybe generating a bunch of stuff feels great, but if you care about the process, learning, and discovery, just prompting an llm doesn't feel great.

[charcircuit]

Most programmers do not care about how platforms work. How many kid web developers do you think actively read Chromium's source code? It's already plenty stimulating staying at a higher level, letting abstractions hide implementation details.