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Posted by tosh 4 hours ago

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)(norvig.com)
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timonoko 3 hours ago||
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genxy 2 hours ago||
There is always someone better than you at almost everything you do, this is statistical reality.

If all you care about is the artifact and not the path, there is no reason to do anything.

Use the tool to better yourself, your understanding and push the limits of what is possible. If a Lisp in assembly with GC is now hello world, change what a hard project is.

I see this attitude a lot, and I think it is rooted in a sort of self-centered elitism. Anyone can do it, so why do it? Instead you could have the AI teach you how to implement it yourself with a deep understanding that no human, even if you paid them, would put up with.

But sure, get depressed. But why tho?

tosh 3 hours ago|||
is learning how to accomplish or understand something boring

just because someone or something else does it better?

abecedarius 2 hours ago|||
It's funny, in the 8-bit days a lot of us learned programming for its own sake without much expectation it'd be lucrative. Took ~50 years to get back to that spirit as the default.
Lyngbakr 2 hours ago|||
It depends why you're doing it. Are you doing it for the product or the process? (Of course, they're not mutually exclusive.) I do it for the fun of building, in which case AI is irrelevant.
chamomeal 3 hours ago||
I mean it’s still worth doing, even if AI can do it. But I definitely empathize with that bit of AI ennui.
RedCinnabar 2 hours ago|
Man these kind of resources have aged really bad in the age of AI.
Crespyl 2 hours ago||
Why would AI make these age worse than, say, libraries or languages becoming obsolete?

I don't think a good learning resource gets worse just because there's a newer alternative.

RedCinnabar 2 hours ago||
> I don’t think a good learning resource gets worse[...]

Probably not, but they become irrelevant. The other day I found an old programming book at my parents’ and while it was still a terrific resource, I couldn’t image anyone learning a language from a book nowadays.

AI is doing the same thing but 100 times effectively than anything else.

incanus77 2 hours ago|||
How do you mean “these kind”?
RedCinnabar 2 hours ago||
Blog tutorials, guides, programming books and youtube tutorials. They are completely irrelevant in a time where you have a personal tutor willing to explain every single detail of a subject.
macintux 1 hour ago||
That's like saying your grandfather is irrelevant now that he's spawned children and grandchildren. Good luck to those personal tutors without this source material.
jgalt212 2 hours ago||
How so?