100 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 18 Oct 2023 \ on: Is it too late to learn to code tech
If you only ever want to be average at programming, it might be too late.
If you want to put in the effort to become exceptional, AI won’t catch up for awhile I’d guess.
I’ve found AI useful on very specific and narrow prompts where I’m merely average (or below) at what I’m asking it to do. But if I ask it to do something I’m more or less leet in, it can’t hang. It also can’t yet ingest all the context of a project.
In general, I recommend pursuing things in life assuming the pursuit may be the only payoff. If you don’t want to learn to code for its own sake, don’t do it, AI or not.
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152 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 18 Oct 2023
I wanted to come back and prevent this being read as "follow your passion."
When thinking about careers, the goal is to find where your passion produces things that are valuable to other people. You want to avoid maximizing passion exclusively. IMO you want to maximize both passion and value created simultaneously. It makes the problem harder but it's still tractable.
If it helps, another way to think about this is finding something
  1. people want
  2. that's hard for people to get
  3. that you can imagine you can, eventually, provide relatively easily
  4. that you get deep enjoyment providing
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120 sats \ 1 reply \ @nemo 18 Oct 2023
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