I’ve had this mindset for most of my career and even my earlier days of learning about software engineering.
People lean on easy ways out far too much and never understand the underlying information. I deeply dislike that modern development has basically become “OK so import these 20 libraries, most of which are supported by 1 or 2 people, instead of understanding the deeper logic.”
Helpful with strict deadlines, sure. But it reminds me of how much Core.js is used and yet it is a one man operation and he was in Russian prison (and thus unable to maintain a very active user base) for 8 months and it didn’t phase people.
Or people just blindly accept the competence of strangers and implement without even glancing at the code.
That’s how I expect “Ai” development tools to go: a lot of people taking short cuts with the tools regardless of the consequences. We already see people doing it with chat GPT and of course copilot.
It is nearly a meme at this point that Gen Z and Alpha are essentially computer illiterate. That’s how I imagine a significant number of the developers of the future will go if we don’t break this “take the easy way out” mindset.
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I’ve had this mindset for most of my career and even my earlier days of learning about software engineering.
People lean on easy ways out far too much and never understand the underlying information. I deeply dislike that modern development has basically become “OK so import these 20 libraries, most of which are supported by 1 or 2 people, instead of understanding the deeper logic.”
Helpful with strict deadlines, sure. But it reminds me of how much Core.js is used and yet it is a one man operation and he was in Russian prison (and thus unable to maintain a very active user base) for 8 months and it didn’t phase people.
Or people just blindly accept the competence of strangers and implement without even glancing at the code.
That’s how I expect “Ai” development tools to go: a lot of people taking short cuts with the tools regardless of the consequences. We already see people doing it with chat GPT and of course copilot.
It is nearly a meme at this point that Gen Z and Alpha are essentially computer illiterate. That’s how I imagine a significant number of the developers of the future will go if we don’t break this “take the easy way out” mindset.
Alright, old man is done ranting now.