Post #4251070

2026-07-30 18:56 UTC

@matt@toot.cafe For what I'm currently doing, I think I need an LLM. The bredth of basic knowledge it has about different coding languages and frameworks means I can point it at just about anything and say "do x," and it knows enough to get started. But I could be doing something else. If I were to design my own app, better tutorials would definitely be good. I need to get invested in how learning the thing will make me better at doing what I'm trying to do. A lot of programming concepts are reusable and a structured learning that takes you through those things, then focuses on languages, would probably help with the choice paralysis. I can learn a concept, then see how that concept gets implemented, then learn more about the ones that I, erm, vibe with. From there, it's just a matter of familiarizing yourself with the tools, conventions, etc. of the thing you've chosen.

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@prism@infosec.exchange 2026-07-30 19:31

@matt@toot.cafe I understand at a certain point I am just railing against things being the way they are, but like, having that understanding of, "this type of languages does things this way, because it's trying to do this, and so it's probably going to be good for doing that." So I can structure the learning. Would be good. On the other hand, if the answer is something like, "well, c is really hard, but you can do basically anything with it so you'll probably end up there, but Python is simpler and has really good docs and you can still do a lot with it. So that could be a good starting point!" Just says to me "come back to the serious stuff in five years when you're a real engineer" which I know isn't actually how it is but you get what I mean. It is demoralizing.

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