alt Hacker NewsDoes learning this still matter now?
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shwaj • last Sunday at 8:10 PM
Matter to who? If you want to deeply understand how this technology works, this is still relevant. If you want to vibe code, maybe not.
Does learning this still matter now?
Matter to who? If you want to deeply understand how this technology works, this is still relevant. If you want to vibe code, maybe not.
Yes, the current technology cannot replace an engineer.
The easiest way to understand why is by understanding natural language. A natural language like english is very messy and and doesn't follow formal rules. It's also not specific enough to provide instructions to a computer, that's why code was created.
The AI is incredibly dumb when it comes to complex tasks with long range contexts. It needs an engineer that understands how to write and execute code to give it precise instructions or it is useless.
Natural Language Processing is so complex, it started around the end of world war two and we are just now seeing innovation in AI where we can mimmick humans, where the AI can do certain things faster than humans. But thinking is not one of them.