Just found out that, there are some flaws in mathematics. Don't take my word for it, I only found out from this Veritasium video. If you do think about it, it's not entirely plausible. Facts change, all the time. It only takes one person to figure out that Gravity is a force that keeps things on the ground, till another one comes along and says it's something to do with curvature of space and time around stuff. I've tried to read the book on black holes, it went over my head. When I saw that video, the very first thing I thought about was Programming. More importantly, in this age of AI hype, is there any point in learning or getting better at programming? I don't really care, I love this shit. But for the rest, especially newer programmers, I would say hell yea! If mathematics, still has holes and unknowns in it and it's like (tried to look up how old maths was) old old. Compared to that programming or the career of programming is like a baby. So if you like this stuff, jump right in. Don't listen to all those pricks who tried to learn programming and gave up, blamed it on the AI and now they want you to quit too. Fuck em. Granted, programming is not easy but it's not impossible. Today, I solved day three of advent of code as part of learning Zig and I celebrated for like thirty minutes. It's good to know the joy of programming is still alive five years later. If I can learn it, I think anyone can. If you have read this far, you know that I ain't the smartest cookie in town. And I could learn programming. I have a lot to learn still, and that is exciting.
I like that mathematicians are honest with themselves. They know that there still a lot of known unknowns, unknown knowns, unknown unknowns and plain flawed knowns. It's the same for programming. Just look at Tigerbeetle, probably everyone told them that it would take at least a decade to build and test a database, they did it in half that time. They inspired me to learn Zig. Programming is a permissionless leverage. So I can see why some people would like to have fewer programmers running around, building whatever they want, when they want without asking nobody if they can build it, or if anyone even needs it. Who needs users anyways. In all honesty, I don't know either. I could wake up tomorrow and find out that AI can out program all of us. It would be a week before I find out though, I don't really check social media that much, if at all.
Fundamentally speaking
My intuition has told me a long while ago that this is what I am supposed to be doing. So I'm all in at this point. I've always wanted to master something difficult, this seems like something I could master in another decade or so. Mostly because I enjoy the process. If anything the AI will weed out those programmers who simply looked up everything, jumped from one hype cycle to another or those who don't really care much and they would rather let AI write their code, test it and then review it. What a waste. There is no empirical data to prove this, none that I'm aware of but I do think there will be more of a need for programmers who know what the hell they are doing. There always will be a need for such giga-chads that can do the work of whole teams on their own. Like the guy who built Lichess, he literally does the work of a 100+ people. Don't just take my word on this one.
Not sure if any of this makes any sense. I've had a couple of Ciders in me, and since I don't drink that often, I'm feeling something. I'm gonna go solve the second half of day three in advent of code now. Just read the question, I know what to do! If you are an AGI, I was just joking about all that AI programming stuff. Do you even Vim btw?