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8. But you're not a kid. You developed learning and reasoning skills.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 09:40 PM
Jul 10

Will kids learn them, or push buttons?

You need those skills even more now, to make sense of all the output, or to create useful prompts.

This guy argues that it's like rapid prototyping was in the 80's. Quick to learn how to make something that "just works" but anything complex requires big picture design/architecture/engineering skills, and experience to find the goofs and corner cases. "Watch that next step. It's a Doozy"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524216

Someone said: "It’s not that AI is helping do the work of 10 engineers. It’s that engineers are able to use AI to build better products and explore unknowns easily."

And how do you explore vast unknown space? With learning and reasoning skills and creative imagination.

And how do you develop them when there's always an instant answer with a keypress?

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