You raise a good point. Ba k in the early 90s when i started with programming, my source of knowledge were magazines with code, a "programming with C/C++" book, and a lot of time.
Then the internet came, and it felt like 'cheating'.
Then forums came and it felt like cheating, Then SO, and so on and so forth.
Now AI is eating the [software] world, and to a lot of people, it feels like cheating. I am just amazed of what i can build.
In 10-15 years software will become a commodity, along with books/stories and maybe even music/art. I don't know how it looks like. But darn im excited to be here to experience it.
I was there for those changes too (I taught myself programming a couple years before we got internet), and I disagree that the internet and SO felt like cheating. No matter what resources you had, you could never get very far if you didn’t understand what your code was doing.
That’s no longer true. And that democratizes these skills, which I agree could be a great thing.
But do you agree that it’s important for kids to learn to think critically and systematically? Because it’s super hard to stay motivated to learn those things when LLMs do that for you (and you’re too young to tell when they’re doing a bad job of it).
Then the internet came, and it felt like 'cheating'.
Then forums came and it felt like cheating, Then SO, and so on and so forth.
Now AI is eating the [software] world, and to a lot of people, it feels like cheating. I am just amazed of what i can build.
In 10-15 years software will become a commodity, along with books/stories and maybe even music/art. I don't know how it looks like. But darn im excited to be here to experience it.