This is frustratingly true, but I don't think Claude is ahead of what search used to be. We have forgotten that google used to be considered magic back when it worked.
LLM tooling will be no different, it'll be magic whilst the money flows then get suddenly terrible.
Yash16•1mo ago
neuralkoi•1mo ago
Understanding is not just doing. Understanding is being able to build something up from first principles. The author of this post will better understand the difference when he hits a non-trivial bug or the project grows past a certain size.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
ay•1mo ago
By virtue of being generators subtly broken stuff, LLMs are well positioned to create very nice learning material.
Same thing about growing the project - having to deal with something too big for AI is a very valuable experience.
And, in my experience, some of the purely human made codebases are strictly worse than LLM-made :-)
dogline•1mo ago
I didn’t realize how close LLMs are to the old magazines. Let it give you a seed, then use that springboard to learn everything else.
stpedgwdgfhgdd•1mo ago
Claude Code will change your life when you learn how to program with it. However, if you are a programmer with not a lot of desire for automated tests and specs/designs, you are probably not going to be successful with it.
The art of coding has become a commodity. Validation and verification are the new art.
chrisandchris•1mo ago
But how (honest question) do you learn hoe to peogram with it. All I see is people using it to program and stop thinking about all the steps required between start and goal. That's not learning, that's assisted doing and that will only get you as far as the tooling (the assistent) goes. I've yet so see someone that learned coding with AI and was then able to do the same job without it.
firemelt•1mo ago
dboon•1mo ago