[michaelsalim]

I love AI but one thing that is a bummer is: Skills that used to be straightforward but people generally never took the time to learn are now trivial with AI.

Things like regex and CSS are not that hard if you take some time to study them. People don't though. Now I don't have that advantage anymore since AI can do them so well. Or... Maybe that could be an advantage since there will be even less people learning it.

[jghn]

They were also easy to look up on the fly as one needed them too. So really really knowing them was never a true advantage. For me it wasn't that I never took the time to learn them. I realized long ago that it wasn't worth my time to keep that information in my brain, and I offloaded it to google 100% of the time it came up in my day to day life. Now I offload it to Claude, same thing.

[michaelsalim]

I do agree with that. I wouldn't say I really really know them either. I know enough to sound competent and be relied upon, and then I can google them to remind myself of the details.

[jghn]

I realized later you likely meant the latter anyways and yeah that's much different. It's important to know what these things are, how they work, and why one would need to tweak them. It was never important to have the syntax on instant recall.