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..but but... I've never had the opportunity or helpful environment to focus on learning languages and focused on other skillsets.

Other efforts to try and coordinate the time, finances and a team to accomplish the projects that I have in mind also failed miserably..

Am I (for example) so bad to believe that I could possibly accomplish some of my dreams with the help of LLMs as another attempt to be an accomplished human being?

(partly /s but partly not)


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munificent08/01/2025

I made no moral claims about whether it's bad to want to have code without wanting to go through the experience of writing it.

I want a nice lawn, but I don't want to mow it myself. I pay a landscaper. I don't think that makes me a bad person.

But it does make me a different person from someone who enjoys the process of manicuring a lawn.

kevindamm07/31/2025

The more powerful the tool, the more responsible its wielder should behave.

Ideally. In reality, that's impossible to enforce.

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