Great illustration of how much depth there is to what...
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Great illustration of how much depth there is to what we do as engineers behind just “writing code” - understanding why localhost:3000 isn’t something you can share involves understanding URLs, clients, servers, networking, DNS...
Cursor engineers are coming for our jobs
LLMs can certainly help people understand that stuff, but even knowing what questions to ask involves a depth of understanding that takes quite a lot of effort to accumulate
To clarify: I know the image was a joke. I'm using it to illustrate a larger idea here
I'm a big proponent of AI-assisted development: I think it's the most significant boost to new devs I've seen in my lifetime
But there's still a TON to learn, you just get to learn it faster!
Also relevant: this 2021 story about how “the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students” theverge.com/22684730/stude...
Relevant thought from @forrestbrazeal in newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-death-of...
