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Learning a technical skill turns less on memorising its parts than on accepting that you will feel stupid and carrying on anyway.
Last stated 12 Jul 2022 · 4 years ago
Holds AMAdam Mastroianni
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Students who learn everything through an LLM are not learning, they are cheating, and the skill loss is already showing up in experienced programmers too.
Last stated 24 Jun 2026 · 2 months ago
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Dismissing a subject as a waste of time because you never used its details on the job is the wrong way to think, and it is the same mistake people make about learning to code now that AI writes the loops.
Last stated 24 Jun 2026 · 2 months ago
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Learning should be made harder rather than easier, and a teacher's instinct to smooth the path is the first thing that goes wrong.
Last stated 13 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds ACAlan Castel
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Solving a problem yourself, without searching or prompting, is a form of exercise -- the help makes you weaker.
Last stated 3 Mar 2026 · 6 months ago
Holds SYScott H. Young
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Programming, not diagramming, is where an engineer actually learns, because code is the point at which you can no longer fool yourself about what you understand.
Last stated 1 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds KBKent Beck
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Memory-safety bugs are not a skill problem: the mistakes are trivial and there are so many places to make one that even an excellent programmer will.
Last stated 20 May 2026 · 4 months ago
Holds ARAlice Ryhl
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That people are good at maths and coding, which evolution never selected for, shows human learning is not a complicated evolutionary prior but something more fundamental.
Last stated 25 Nov 2025 · 9 months ago
Holds ISIlya Sutskever
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You cannot learn from work you did not do yourself.
Last stated 22 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds SYScott H. Young