In the age of AI, what's the most important thing a dev should learn?
In the age of AI, what's the most important thing a dev should learn?
Welding, foraging, scavenging, hacking, repurposing old junk into shelter and transportation, hydroponics, stealing electricity, small scale farming, digging, ammo reloading, evading AI, creating improvised explosive devices, smuggling, ICE breaking, soldering / electronics fabrication and repair, firearms maintenance, diesel mechanics, broadcasting pirate radio and television...
anything other than ai slop generation... with every muppet diving head first into llm group fap parties, all the real work still has to get done, especially as people are starting to properly understand that the inherent nature of these black boxes is to produce something that looks rational, but which is subtly woven with bugs that will take longer to fix than if you'd just written simple software from the start; forget "ai" taking your job - it's weeding out the useless "coders" and making those of us who treat coding as a craft even more valuable.
Networking, dealing with humans, and all the work involved in building reliable software that solves problems. In the end you still need to think about what you will build and make sure it solves someone’s problems. AI won’t do that for you.
Being comfortable with code being a black box, and seeing & being comfortable that it works without knowing how it works.
Having the attitude to embrace it instead of fighting it.
There is no age of ai. Only a period of decent auto complete.
Nothing fundamentally changed in computer science since 20-40 years ago.
Compassion, decision making under uncertainty