LLMs made it easy to skip the BS. Once you know programmingh you don't need hours and hours of content. Just the mental model for and you're good to go.

If it weren't for the job losses I'd never want to go back to 2015 or so to go back and forth on SO questions and answers and spend days on a boilerplate issue.

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SoftTalker 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Eh, combing the internet for ideas, perusing revision history, and finally discovering the cause of a problem was kind of fun. It was a challenge. It was slow, and I understand why business was frustrated by that, but on a personal level I enjoyed it. It had the same rewards as any other game or puzzle.

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platevoltage 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, but who is going to learn programming given how they can "skip the bs"?

	▲	coolThingsFirst 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		CS students, we wrote syntax on paper during exams. Same could be done. By BS, i mean tsconfig files and caddy boilerplate.