this is a great piece on LLMs & training talent: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-death-of-the-junior-developer
A relative story, about how I learned to make music:
I learned about how to make music in a somewhat backwards fashion. It turns out that what I wanted to do was compose, but I didn’t know that. My understanding of harmony is based on math, not practice. I struggled for a long time with escaping “eight bar loop” syndrome; the music I programmed didn’t go anywhere
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