"Would you be completely stuck if AI wasn’t available?"
RUN LOCAL MODELS
Yes it's more expensive. Yes it's "inefficient". Yes the models aren't completely cutting edge.
What you lose in all that is you gain resilience, a thing so overlooked in our hyper optimized 0.01% faster culture. Also, you can use it guilt free and know your input is not being farmed for research or megacorper profits.
Most of what this article is saying is true, you need to stay sharp. As always, this industry changes, and you have to surf what's out there.
Skill fade is a weird way of saying "skill changes". There is no way to keep everything you know in working memory all the time. Do I still have PTSD from malloc/free in C, absolutely. I couldn't rewrite that stuff right now if you held a gun to my head (RIP), but with an afternoon or so of screwing round I'd be so back.
I don't like the dichotomy of you're either a dumbass: "why doesn't this work" or a genius. Don't let the game tell you how to play, use every advantage you have and go beyond what is thought possible.
For me, LLMs are a self pedagogy tool I wished I had when I was a teen. For programming, for learning languages, and keeping me motivated. There's just something different about live rubber ducking to reason through an idea, and have it make to do lists for things you want to do that breaks barriers I used to feel.
RUN LOCAL MODELS
Yes it's more expensive. Yes it's "inefficient". Yes the models aren't completely cutting edge.
What you lose in all that is you gain resilience, a thing so overlooked in our hyper optimized 0.01% faster culture. Also, you can use it guilt free and know your input is not being farmed for research or megacorper profits.
Most of what this article is saying is true, you need to stay sharp. As always, this industry changes, and you have to surf what's out there.
Skill fade is a weird way of saying "skill changes". There is no way to keep everything you know in working memory all the time. Do I still have PTSD from malloc/free in C, absolutely. I couldn't rewrite that stuff right now if you held a gun to my head (RIP), but with an afternoon or so of screwing round I'd be so back.
I don't like the dichotomy of you're either a dumbass: "why doesn't this work" or a genius. Don't let the game tell you how to play, use every advantage you have and go beyond what is thought possible.
For me, LLMs are a self pedagogy tool I wished I had when I was a teen. For programming, for learning languages, and keeping me motivated. There's just something different about live rubber ducking to reason through an idea, and have it make to do lists for things you want to do that breaks barriers I used to feel.