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mellosoulstoday at 12:14 PM4 repliesview on HN

(2022) and unfortunately advice to spend significant amounts of time in learning multiple languages is becoming rapidly redundant in the LLM age.


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nxpnsvtoday at 1:48 PM

Hmm, here's a thought... If you want to stand out, it doesn't matter that some things now are easier for everybody, what matters is that that you are able to get better results than others. Learning multiple languages gives you more the ability to use them. It improves your thinking, makes you a better coder, and more able to understand different techniques. LLMs are tools, to use them better than the next person you need to understand what to ask, and what a good answer looks like.

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zokytoday at 12:24 PM

Not at all. That’s like saying learning how different kinds of engines work is redundant in the age of taxis. You don’t have to know any of this stuff in order to get from A to B. But if you want to understand the processes involved in getting there, or you maybe want to be the one that builds a better self-driving vehicle, this is where you should start.

justincormacktoday at 12:22 PM

These are tools for thinking with, so not obsolete.

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aDyslecticCrowtoday at 1:26 PM

You're right. We should just run everything in java-script because that's what LLMs are good at right?

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