Kyrylo Silin reflecting on importance of learning to code.
AI is the new shiny toy everyone wants to play with. And to be honest, it’s impressive. The problem with AI is that with every year, it gets better and better. Wait what? How’s that a problem? Well, with every new year you lose control.
The more you rely on AI, the less you understand what you’re doing. The less you understand, the more AI vendors can control you. And the more control they have, the more they can charge you. It’s a vicious cycle.
This shift was inevitable. Humanity must adapt to this new reality. AI isn’t going away, and we need to learn how to use it to our advantage.
The large language models (LLMs) created by tech giants have absorbed decades of knowledge — our knowledge. They’ve been trained on our work.
Now they’re selling it back to us and telling us we only need to learn English to code. This is a lie. As a new programmer, I don’t want you to fall for it. There’s no corner-cutting. Get your shit together and learn to code.
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While I agree that programmers need to learn to code, the unfortunate reality is that AI will charge us to write code that it trained itself on using our work. The charge is for completing a function in a matter of minutes, sometimes even seconds. The charge is for speed and efficiency.