alt Hacker NewsThe entire point of technology is to provide shortcuts. Compilers are shortcuts to creativity. So are IDEs. So are game engines. Laziness is not an inherent vice and working hard is not an inherent virtue, no matter how long the gold stars for effort linger in your memory.
> The entire point of technology is to provide shortcuts.
Convenience not shortcuts, they're very different.
> Compilers are shortcuts to creativity. So are IDEs.
I argue that they're not shortcuts, but convenient ways for making you more productive. And compilers made use productive 1000x not AI that allegedly made us 10x(and it's actually not)