Am I learning, or am I just prompting? (techhub.iodigital.com)

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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.

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[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 12 points 13 hours ago

I (and other actually competent devs I’ve talked to about it) have always gone straight to official documentation first.

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.

[-] iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

Is that because you didn’t bother to read the documentation before using product X, and now you encountered some issue because you used X incorrectly?

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