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I learned to program by shitting out God awful shell scripts that got gently thrashed by senior devs. The only way I've ever learned anything is by having a real-world problem that I can solve. You absolutely do NOT need a CS degree to learn software dev or even some of compsci itself, and I agree that tools like Bolt are going to make shit harder. It's one thing to copy stack overflow code because you have people arguing about it in the comments. You get to hear the pros and cons and it can eventually make sense. It's something entirely different when an LLM shits out code that it can't even accurately describe later.
Or that it can produce repeatedly. That's something that bothers me. Slight changes in the prompt and you get a wildly different result. Or, worse, you get the same bad output every time you prompt it.
And then there are the security flaws
Same thing here except I'm still not a developer. Just from time to time can do something if it's less boring than going another way.
I've even played through the "Turing Complete" game once, because I can't force myself to repeat it. And it was very interesting, absolutely cool, except that gun has fired. It appears the game changed enough though, maybe it's a sufficiently different gun to fire again. It's a game for entertainment, not even talking about real life.
And when there's a direct incentive, nothing is hard, for real. The hardship is in eyes tiring, time passing, time to render (in case of POV-Ray), migraines. But the task itself just takes it all as a payment, not as an effort.
And I sincerely don't get why my diagnoses are ASD and BAD despite describing this many times, that is, that happens with ASD too, but honestly ADHD seems the most intuitive abbreviation here.