first lets grow my twitter, i will probably change all of the world obsolete education systems, not sure yet, the more people follow me — the easier it is to change the systems
hi
how do you know if you are a coder or an engineer?
not all coders are engineers, but all engineers are coders
if you came in tech from a bootcamp and/or youtube tutorials, landed a job 1~2 years ago and you are to become a Senior when you learn 1~2 more tools — im sorry, i was there, you are going to hit the iceberg now
But I can already build an app, why bother?
AI is going to build such apps in 2~3 years..
putting together DB with a Cache and setting up microservices handled by a queue — is not engineering, its coding per the best practices
Coders copy stackoverflow by error message, Engineers know what they want to copy from stackoverflow
coding is repetitive task of typing characters as per the best practices set by Engineers
Coders repeat, so do GPTs. GPT does not innovate, it generates what has already been said on the internet
Engineers come up with previously unavailable solutions to problems
Engineers innovate, so they are valuable. Coders copy, so they can be replaced.
you want to continue blind copy-pasting until the error is fixed? GPT-6 is coming for you.
ok, what do i suggest?
start learning Computer Science fundamentals
it improves engineering thinking and problem solving skills. that's how you make difference and value
- learn CS — level up engineering and critical thinking
- land Google as a SWE
- make difference
- deliver value
- get more $
- go up and play lead roles
- CTO something your skills are relevant to
- then 2 steps to CEO any stuff you have fun solving
- or stay FAANG if stock options are good enough
- or be replaced and go make music or sad comedy
the sooner you see the wall — the better. so here am i pointing in front of you — learn Computer Science to solve problems and level up engineering and critical thinking
AI and LLMs like GPT are coming for the repetitive tasks that coders do. the best way to stay in the game is to become the innovator rather than the implementer
1st person immersive experience storytelling
practicing in my capturing attention skills, does it work?
the story goes like this:
coder named Yoo Yoself learns how to make an app in a fantastic bootcamp experience, lands a job and gets respects from parents and friends, good start.
some engineer called Samuel L. Altman comes up with a way of zipping files (some inside-out compression algorithm) so coders can do ~10% improvement on their app TTFR (time-to-first-response).
Samuel then asks GPT-6 to create a website from a pen drawing and so Altman “alts all man" with GPTs. haha sorry i stole this one from Fireship, maaan how did you come up with that..
Yoo Yoself is going home finally noticing ceiling hit, but there is still a great story left to tell friends — “hey dudes, ive learned programming in 6 months and got the money!”, however they already heard it..
Coder repeats — they are great fit for the AI automation. Engineers innovate — they are making difference.
WHY i tell you this
i want people to have more opportunities, the more knowledge we have the more opportunities we see, so im sharing my experience with you
now go and learn Computer Science fundamentals, it does:
- organize experience you got from practice by building transparent mental models and filling missing picture pieces
- clean your head from memorizing implementations by moving up to ideas level
- develop critical and engineering thinking upon solid understanding of how software interacts with hardware and why your awesome code works
- you dont get replaced
this is so you move out of a sandbox and dont go sansara circles in the tech and life probably..
CS is not learning one more framework or programming languages, it's learning ALL of them at once by understanding computer science ideas all tools are build upon
Selling part
im crafting “Build a Computer Simulator” — 100% practice-first, fun learning experience that you get addiction to — even Israeli doctors cant help
it is fundamental fundamentals of applied computer science.
there is literally no better way of learning CS then assembling ALU, RAM and CPU from logic gates.
you will get a web simulator to assemble a general-purpose machine. then you are to program the machine with language you write compiler for within your self-coded operating system (its gonna be online lego Harry Potter vs Jordan Peterson 3000-deluxe stuff)
it will take you about 50~70 hours to finish (not 4 years of CS major though)
subscribe to my twitter to be the first to know when the Build a Computer Simulator is public!
while im creating the Simulator — go to edx.org and check out MIT and Berkley applied computer science materials
bye
Who the F am I?
im a life-long learner who is obsessed with educating himself and helping other people learn things, so they dont walk circles and align their movements ;)
i got in tech in 2017: engineered programs for Alibaba and now playing startups in Deel — YC alumni, fastest growing startup in history
i created and open-sourced OpenCommit and came up with an accurate way of writing code with GPT-4 via AI-TDD which is going to take the world of AI repetitive coding when i have time telling people about it
check my "Learn ML in 52 seconds"
Top comments (26)
I'm still not quite over the fact that this is even a problem. Humanity is well on its way to automate one of the last things that had so far been impossible to automate, and instead of being happy that there'll be even less work left for actual people, we're obsessing over preventing it.
The hard part about programming is never "coding." The hard part is always "coming up with a solution to the problem." LLMs aren't going to replace the latter, only the former. I'm happy about that.
If we're going to whine about stuff getting automated then we might as well (in increasing order of absurdity):
ditch checkout scanners and bring back the middle class skilled profession of "store clerk" who tallies up the price of the goods.
get rid of the machines that fill pastries with creme and manually inject creme into all our Twinkies.
go back to assembly line manufacturing by hand for vehicles
eliminate tractors and go back to planting fields by hand
Because the important thing is keeping people in jobs, right? At every single one of those things and more, people protested about job losses.
There will always be more things for people to do. Getting them out of the boring stuff that they don't like doing, while still getting that stuff done, frees them up to do something else. The disruption is always temporary.
True, and this will always open up doors for more things humans can do. I feel the fear in a lot of the articles about AI replacing this or that job, but people adapt and new jobs do come out of it. Also things evolve and adapt around the new changes.
"BUt tHiS TiMe it'S DIFfErEnt!" - every news outlet ever, which get more views and more revenue when people think there's impending doom, which also said the same thing about every other disruptive automation tech.
same opinion, cant wait when i tell some AI-IDE what i want to build to solve a problem and i dont manage implemetations details
There shouldn't be a discussion to revert the progression. (Environmental concerns by side)
The problem in the automation of simple tasks is the increasing complexity of the remaining ones. At some point cognitive load may be getting to big for some people to handle.
There should be a social debate about the implications of this problem.
"LLMs aren't going to replace the latter" They will, just not yet
Everybody said that about "no code" but ironically all it did was increase the demand for developers.
I rather keep my job.
By the way like 60% of everything you consume isn't automated. All your clothes are still stitched by hand as there is no robot on earth capable of stitching by itself.
Your electronics are assembled by hand.
The future you describe is one where the only jobs available are low to no skill and liw pay.
We will move boxes and make lattes and own nothing
Sounds amazing
Given enough time, AI will probably enable robots to do more and more of these tasks as well. At some point humanity will just have to accept that the model of full-time employment for the entire population just isn't sustainable, and we'll have to start leaning back more. Well, that or we continue this weird "capitalism" nonsense, whereby "not enough work" is somehow a bad thing.
honestly i dont like coding, i love building. im happy AI will automate manual labour typing and could not manage zoo of libraries with 10000 different implementations of the same thing
Most people don't like the idea that most of humanity will be super empowered by AI. And some competitors want to have advantage over their competitors thats why the thought of AI makes some people worried
I firmly believe that, indeed, some programming teams may be smaller due to a single programmer's increased productivity with the assistance of a large language model (LLM) as a valuable tool. However, any company that replaces an entire department or team with an LLM fails to grasp the true nature of how LLMs function. A noteworthy yet often overlooked example is an amateur Go player who consistently defeated the world's most advanced Go AI by utilizing a basic concept of the game.
Essentially, the researcher managed to triumph over the 5000+ MMR Go AI approximately 96% of the time by employing what they termed the "double capture technique." They created multiple loops on the board to capture stones, but the AI neglected the inner loop. This is significant because it demonstrates that a Go program capable of defeating top Go players worldwide does not genuinely comprehend the game of Go. Even a novice Go player would know to evade such captures as they award numerous points to the opponent, yet this AI appeared indifferent.
Most importantly, these Go AIs employ the same methods used in all LLMs. Although these AIs may be able to pass the bar exam or compose a top-tier essay, they lack a true understanding of their actions. In the context of coding, this implies that these systems are approximating code writing rather than genuinely writing code like a programmer. They can mimic and identify patterns in existing code, but their limited understanding can also lead to hallucinations.
This is also the reason why these tools will always require the presence of an individual with domain expertise to fully leverage their capabilities. Without comprehension, these LLMs cannot operate independently. Even something like AutoGPT needs a chaperone to work properly.
For context, I am an engineer who has been working with GPT-3, GPT-4, and GitHub Copilot X for several months now. While these tools have saved me time in various instances, the experience is not akin to pair programming with a junior developer; it feels more like guiding a search engine to locate the information I need. Although it can generate code and retrieve information more rapidly than traditional engines, the resulting code is just as prone to flaws as any content found on GitHub or Stack Overflow.
This IMO is the biggest flaw with modern AI systems and until someone figures out a different way to build an AI or a way to cover these weaknesses, the current generation of AI won't be able to fully automate these more complex jobs without the help of a human.
absolutely agree here, great text, thanks for sharing
youtu.be/l7tWoPk25yU
Exactly. Hadn't watched his video but I had read the research paper when it came out and it raised an eyebrow...
Literally this video
I love this documentation. 👍
Edit suggestion on your twitter profile.
Current "Helping World with software while having fun"
Suggestion ""Helping the world with software while having fun."
Or this as we expand
thanks for that <3
well said
This is spot on. I saw this two years back 😊
Fear mongering to sell a scam product.
ohh the internet, i love it
i've found a Stanford CS 101 for you for FREE ❤️
nonsense, coders will use GPT and engineer's tools to create products for user demand, this is about money, and survival, stop gatekeeping what we should learn son.
dad, i asked you not to comment on my posts, people are watching! i told you and mom that coding is manual labour and it will be less and less demand for clicking keyboard when Copilot gets more accurate and engineers solve problems 666 times faster with less need to hire more coders <3