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rco8786 ◴[] No.42941843[source]
I have nothing but fond memories of reading Beej's guides.

It's also this sort of work that's becoming less necessary with AI, for better or worse. This appears to be a crazy good guide, but I bet asking e.g. Claude to teach you about git (specific concepts or generate the whole guide outline and go wide on it) would be at least as good.

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yoyohello13 ◴[] No.42941937[source]
Seems more efficient to have one reference book rather than generating entire new 20 chapter books for every person.

I also think if you are at the “don’t know what you don’t know” point of learning a topic it’s very hard to direct an AI to generate comprehensive learning material.

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1. mhh__ ◴[] No.42942007[source]
True although the don't know aspect is where LLMs will be magic. I envy today's youth for having them (and I'm not that old at all)

I remember fumbling around for ages when I first started coding trying to work out how to save data from my programs. Obviously I wanted a file but 13 year old me took a surprisingly long time to work that out.

Almost impossible to imagine with AI on hand but we will see more slop-merchants.