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Is there any argument that AI could lower the friction i takes to LEARN programming? Or is the temptation to just have AI give you the answers too great? I mean, I guess the issue is that AI can't ever really competently explain anything to you because it doesn't really understand anything.
This article is really tragic. Imagine going into a career to exercise your mind and your creativity, only to end up with the attentional equivalent of a parking lot attendant.
I'll tell you right now that I'd rather ask an LLM what's wrong with my code than deal with the toxic userbase of stackoverflow (and I say that as someone who never actually got flamed on that site).
It can definitely be a crutch but that's an exercise for the user to learn how to not become reliant on it, any more than becoming reliant on an expert by constantly asking them questions.
Learning programming, maybe, maybe not. But I have had success being like "assume I already know Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Haskell. What are the quick pointers and cheat sheets for using R, especially the ggplot2 library"
I could read an R tutorial, but I don't need to learn about variables and what comments are or how to call a function. I just want to know the differences between what I'm already used to.
And I'll admit it was useful to already have that context to throw follow-up questions into when they came up, like "what's the difference between = and <-" which are famously hard questions to Google
It seems like most responsible use cases of AI involve users who have a substantial knowledge base with which to sniff test AI's output, which is at odds with the dream of AI which is to have illiterate morons do all the work for slave wages.