What should we learn now?

jmathai

Learn something adjacent to coding. I think breadth wins over depth. Knowing how to do 10 disciplines 50% of the way is a super power. Rely on LLM-based tools to do the other 50%. This is, unfortunately, contrary to previous advice of specializing. It’s a great time to be a jack of all trades and master of none.

chrisra

More pressure to work off hours, boo.

aarjaneiro

> An AI spellchecked this Spell checking via AI seems... pointless? Unless this is a means of stating "AI did a once-over of this before I hit submit" in which case this is somewhat disingenuous.

lubujackson

100% disagree with the "stick your head in the sand" defense of AI exposure. Instead, use it to understand along the way. I had to learn coding when a reference book was all I had to help when I got stuck. Then the Google and StackOverflow came and people complained about no-knowledge coders copy-pasting their way through tasks. AI is just an extension of that. Yes, you can push out 5,000 line PRs blindly, but you can also use AI to help you speed past blockers, to investigate why things are structured in a certain way, explain what a block of code is doing, propose 3 alternative approaches and explain each, etc. We say "coding is only part of what a SWE does" but you can't do the rest without understanding what the code is doing and meant to do, and why.

esFran

I'm studying a master using Claude, for instante, and it's a breeze. I can understand every problem, ask and explanation for every paragraph evenreorganizae a clearly suboptimal PDF notes from my teacher's class or Latex. It is an aceleretor of my education.