Recently I gave my first ever presentation at iO. It was about what it actually feels like to be a junior developer in a world where AI is just always there. This is a write-up of that talk, including what the room said back.
Am I learning, or am I just prompting?
https://techhub.iodigital.com/articles/am-i-learning-or-am-i-just-prompting
13 Comments
Feyd@programming.dev · 34 pts · 14h
It's not imposter syndrome if you're really an imposter.
ignirtoq@feddit.online · 17 pts · 16h
A short read, but I really got a lot out of it. One thing I've started losing with the rise of AI and didn't realize until now is the communication with coworkers about current problems we're working through. I reach out to people in the git-blame log, and others used to reach out to me. But now everyone asks the AI, so we're even more siloed than before.
It feels less like we're working together and more like we're working next to each other.
Feyd@programming.dev · 6 pts · 14h
Anyone that says this is not good at their job in the first place. I (and other actually competent devs I've talked to about it) have always gone straight to official documentation first. Stack overflow has its place, but it is not the first place to research.
lysdexic@programming.dev · 11 pts · 12h
This is silly posturing. Anyone that is troubleshooting a problem tends to start by googling the error message, and more often than not Google will return SO hits, not official documentation.
Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 13h
Problem is docs are often out of date. Either old, or too new if you have to use an older version. So you can spend hours chasing your tail because what the docs and examples say works, doesn't.
I do agree to start there, but reading the raw code if available is often times the best, and AI can do that much faster if its source available. And ofc it can be wrong in how it "thinks" it should work but so can humans when skimming quickly.
Feyd@programming.dev · 2 pts · 13h
I did say "first", as in the first place you check and not saying you never have to go elsewhere.
"often" is doing some heavy lifting here. Stack overflow and yes looking at source code are useful tools, but the vast majority of the time, the "stack overflow coders" completely eschewed the official documentation when reading it would have not only provided then the information they needed but also helped then develop an intuition for how a library worked that would have served them much better.
Of course I mostly take issue with the blog presenting the experience of a "stack overflow coder" as a universal experience when it was just the experience of incompetents.
FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 3 pts · 8h
Docs rarely give you information about anything except the happy path. StackOverflow did.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 15h
Are we human, or are we Dancer?
qualia@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 19h
Is a boss just delegating work or leading?
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 18h
A boss is not learning from other's people work
terabyterex@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 17h
.... yes, thats how all of us learn. what a weird comment. do you really think you just magically know everything? we all benefit from the people who came before us.
EDIT: i saw the downvotes and actuslly had to verify the community i am in. i really am curious. to the people who do think we learn from others.. how do you think you obtained the knowledge? how did you learn to program?
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1h
It's just jibing. I don't think the comment was meant in earnest. Many, including me have had bad bosses and felt unheard and left due to it.
terabyterex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1h
is that what he is saying? maybe it flew over my head? i honestly didnt know what poknt ge was trying to make. thank you fir taking the time to explain it.