Post #2664745

2025-04-27 00:45 UTC

@jimbob@aus.social Can't say that I get this vide coding thing [I'm not a programmer, I was only ever good at microcontroller assembler in my tertiary education]. This reminded me though of Jenson Huang's reported position on coding is that no one should bother trying to learn it anymore and just use AI. Again not a coder but to me that seemed to be spectacularly wrong-sighted. Do we not bother to learn how to write too?

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@jimbob@aus.social 2025-04-27 00:54

@alanthecampbell@techhub.social I think an analogy with the invention of spell checkers is kind of useful. Spell checkers are good! When they were added to word processors, they were legitimately great! Not perfect, but a good addition to the software you're using. Now imagine if spell checkers required a subscription to work, to pay for the insane energy and warehouses full of processors to run them. And imagine if, once spell checkers came out, it was declared that we simply didn't need to teach kids to spell anymore, since spell checkers only cost $15 a month.

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@robinadams@mathstodon.xyz 2025-04-27 07:06

@alanthecampbell@techhub.social @jimbob@aus.social Apart from anything else, if humans stop writing stuff, what are we going to train the AIs on?

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