I would love to know perspective of Senior engineers here. What worked for them, how they learned things and mastered it. And, in this world, where AI can just do trivial things for you, how does one get good at anything?
I would love to know perspective of Senior engineers here. What worked for them, how they learned things and mastered it. And, in this world, where AI can just do trivial things for you, how does one get good at anything?
You get good by doing non-trivial things. Consider developers like Linus Torvalds and Jeff Dean. Not every developer has the skill to write an operating system or to design and implement a distributed system. Another way of putting it: it is one thing to use ChatGPT, but it’s an entirely different matter to have the skills to make your own LLM.
If you want to stand out as a developer, don’t shy away from in-depth studies of hard topics.
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