I one time had a hilarious chat with a 13 year old who started coding php/js when he was 9. He couldn't really code at all but every day for 4 years he examined/learned 3 things, libraries, api, frameworks. He knew how to query absolutely everything.
His projects were pure glue code. One was some data sets + some data visualization with charts + some map api. A few hours of work, it looked rather remarkable.
Our chat was specially hilarious since I take writing everything from scratch to the absurd level. His one trick was to know all the places online where you can ask your noob developer questions. He was working with a kind of imaginary token system where you get to ask a limited number of questions per month on each platform.
His queries were truly fantastic. A reasonable dev could answer them with little effort, sometimes the next guy would write out the glue code. He didn't ask for much.
13 seems some kind of magical sweet spot where we take the person just serious enough.
Sometimes people had questions about the API, he knew those inside out which was a hilarious contrast.
I asked him: What do you do when it stops working? The answer was to start from scratch. He posted the old glue code, explained it didn't work anymore and someone would answer the easy question.
The process was so completely alien to me that I'm not going to guess where the LLM's are taking us.
His projects were pure glue code. One was some data sets + some data visualization with charts + some map api. A few hours of work, it looked rather remarkable.
Our chat was specially hilarious since I take writing everything from scratch to the absurd level. His one trick was to know all the places online where you can ask your noob developer questions. He was working with a kind of imaginary token system where you get to ask a limited number of questions per month on each platform.
His queries were truly fantastic. A reasonable dev could answer them with little effort, sometimes the next guy would write out the glue code. He didn't ask for much.
13 seems some kind of magical sweet spot where we take the person just serious enough.
Sometimes people had questions about the API, he knew those inside out which was a hilarious contrast.
I asked him: What do you do when it stops working? The answer was to start from scratch. He posted the old glue code, explained it didn't work anymore and someone would answer the easy question.
The process was so completely alien to me that I'm not going to guess where the LLM's are taking us.