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adverblytoday at 2:01 PM3 repliesview on HN

Okay, you're going to need to go into a lot more detail about exactly how you learned more in 2 months than you did in 20 years having read zero generated code.

Code examples are literally bread and butter when it comes to learning.

How can you learn without looking at code? That's like saying that you can learn to be an architect without looking at drawings...


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tegeektoday at 2:20 PM

I didnt know what is relational algebra is? why query plannering execution done in certain ways. What are backend storage system available in open source or commercial products. What are the traitts of each backend storage and how does that effects the replication and failover scenarios. I know all of this, I implemented a small subset of sql's relational algebra in my project and its correct and concise. I expored different backend storage systems, first tried one, then move to next and then 3rd in line, all that in span of less than a month without ever looking what code the coding agents generates.

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andrenatalbrtoday at 2:21 PM

or how to be a doctor without knowing how to cut open a person and look at the internals. looking forward to the future doctors

hdgvhicvtoday at 2:27 PM

Yet millions of people code react slop without ever touching a line of assembley