If you’re going to use LLMs to learn software development, great! Welcome!
Just, don’t skip out on learning the fundamentals. There’s no royal road to knowledge and skill. No shortcuts. No speed running, downloading kung fu, no passing go.
Why?
Because the only thing LLMs do is hallucinate. Often what they generate is what you’re looking for. It’s the right answer!
But if you don’t know what and L1 cache is or how to lay out data for SIMD; no amount of yelling at the bot is going to fix the poor performance, the security errors, and the logic errors. If you don’t know what to ask you won’t know what you’re looking at. And you won’t know how to fix it.
So just remember to learn the fundamentals while you’re out there herding the combine space harvesters… or whatever it is kids do these days.
Just, don’t skip out on learning the fundamentals. There’s no royal road to knowledge and skill. No shortcuts. No speed running, downloading kung fu, no passing go.
Why?
Because the only thing LLMs do is hallucinate. Often what they generate is what you’re looking for. It’s the right answer!
But if you don’t know what and L1 cache is or how to lay out data for SIMD; no amount of yelling at the bot is going to fix the poor performance, the security errors, and the logic errors. If you don’t know what to ask you won’t know what you’re looking at. And you won’t know how to fix it.
So just remember to learn the fundamentals while you’re out there herding the combine space harvesters… or whatever it is kids do these days.