idk, I develop a lot of connected systems: Pis, Macs, lights, Google speakers, custom ESP32 boards. Understanding the capabilities and communication methods to pool them together is still very much part of what I do. If you're thinking one prompt -> production via AI, sure. But I don't think we are anywhere near that because there are so many moving pieces which still require human sign off: legal, design, QA, etc. To me, it just shift ups the level of understanding rather than replaces it.

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SimonLarsen 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> To me, it just shift ups the level of understanding rather than replaces it.

This just sounds like convoluted way of saying you understanding much less than you would otherwise.

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hectdev 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Seems like an odd criticism given that programming has always been about abstraction. But sure, I don’t know tree-level details (functions) but I also wasn’t doing leaf-level (bits) understanding because that became obsolete. Now I’m on forest level and expanding to eco systems.

You can always know more but at a certain point, after you’ve built enough validation and safe guards, you find it’s not the best use of your time and the things you can make beyond your specialization is quite remarkable.

Also, I think the toothpaste isn’t going back in the tube with this

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		AI is not an abstraction.

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