All I hear is "I'm bad at mentoring"
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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There is only so much mentoring can do though. You can have the best math prof. You still need to put in the exercise to solve your differential equations to get good at it.
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And some sort of "no one wants to work any more".
I know young brilliant people, maybe they have to be paid correctly?
I could have been a junior dev that could code. I learned to do it before ChatGPT. I just never got the job.
No wonder open source software becomes more efficient than proprietary one.
Im in uni learning to code right now but since I'm a boomer i only spin up oligarch bots every once in a while to check for an issue that I would have to ask the teacher. It's far more important for me to understand fundies than it is to get a working program. But that is only because ive gotten good at many other skills and realize that fundies are fundamental for a reason.
Very "back in my day" energy.
I do not support AI but programming is about solving problems and not writing code.
If we are concentrating on tool, no developers and use punched card as well. Is that a bad thing?
You're right in that the goal is problem solving, you're wrong that inability to code isn't a problem.
AI can make a for loop and do common tasks but the moment you have something halfway novel to do, it has a habit of shitting itself and pretending that the feces is good code. And if you can't read code, you can't tell the shit from the stuff you want.
It may be able to do it in the future but it can't yet
Source: data engineer who has fought his AI a time or two.
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