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watwut • today at 1:07 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Just like half the people expecting to still be writing code by hand.

I know this is not your main point, but common.

If this is true, AI would be the first tech impossible to learn 5 years after it appeared.


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selectodude • today at 4:28 PM

I look at it as like being able to start a fire in the woods without a lighter. It’s a skill, a helpful one even on the extremely rare occasions that it’s necessary. But realistically with even the bare minimum amount of prep, not a useful one.

How many people out there can do hand lithography to make an 8086 to bootstrap computing? One?

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RobotCaleb • today at 2:29 PM

Common? Did you mean come on?