alt Hacker News... so let me understand this.
It is frequently said that programming directly is obsolete, and the skill you must have now is knowing how to operate agentic AIs.
Yet you aren't allowed to do this until you're 18.
So, developing software is now 18+ only?
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> It is frequently said that programming directly is obsolete
Who says this?
Yes, today’s kids should instead learn to be influencers.
This is genuine advice I’ve seen from high profile business types. We’re fucked in the sense our children will be made to be attention whores online.
It seems out of step and foolish, and the cynic in me says that Anthropic has a side hustle of identity harvesting and is looking for justifications, but on the flip side, there is a real risk of pearl clutching if a child ever uses AI, and maybe Anthropic just wants to steer clear of all of that. Though simply putting it in the ToS should be sufficient legal shielding, and the idea that they're chat harvesting to age fingerprint conversations seems dubious.
Qwen3 runs locally on reasonable hardware, and is comparable to a mid-2025 Claude Sonnet (albeit possibly rather slower) .
Local models are chasing the online frontier models pretty hard.
So worst case, that's the fallback (FWIW, YMMV)
edit: Qwen-3.5 MoE (and other local MoE models like it)