I'm curious, what stopped you from learning the information you needed to complete these bigger projects before LLMs?
I'm confident I can do anything with enough time. But I only have so much.
AI is going to enable so many more ideas to come to fruition and a better world because of it!
Its always worth learning something if you enjoy it, the same applies to code and languages. You can definitely create better apps knowing the details of a specific language than not knowing it and I think its still worth doing if you care about the ultimate quality of your work.
When working with an LLM i care more about prompting it about software architecture, software UX, and the domain we're working on, than the details of the language it uses.
hard disagree on both points. You're talking about "impact" but surely you'll be a better coder if you can actually, you know, code? The other stuff is important sure but if you literally cannot read the code and just pleasure yourself with dreams of architecture and UX, what you're generating is 99% bad quality.
But prove me wrong, would love to see something you've made.
This argument is repeated often but what I think you're missing is that if you want to listen to music you put on the radio, you don't record an album.
Sure if I want to enjoy playing guitar I'll do that, but that's not what I'm paid to do and you're not paid write code. Nobody but me wants to hear me play guitar and nobody but you wants to look at your beautiful code.
If someone is in their 30’ or 40’ planning to work the next 5+ years on a project is no problem, even if it takes 10+ years in the end.
For the ones over 65 or older, it’s a different story…