That's me, or that's me. That's when I was 12, but probably not. I think I was probably maybe, I don't know, like six or seven in that picture, but I couldn't find any other picture. We'll assume I'm 12 cause that's when I started coding apps for the iOS app store. This was the beginning of my journey when it came to development. This was a lot of fun. I remember the first app I ever created was for the world cup. I don't know what they're called, but like they're like the balloon things that hit together and makes a loud sound. That's, that was the beginning of my journey, right?
And when you were coding around this time, obviously artificial intelligence and the way we approach coding now just didn't exist. Therefore it left us in a position where, how do we get answers when we run into issues and coding back then? And as we can see, this was just a bunch of jumping around, right? Whether we're going to a stack overflow form and be like, you know what, what do people say about this? Okay. And you're getting like 80, 70% of your answer. And then you're like, okay, well I got to fill in the 30% gap there. So now you're going to a Reddit form. And then sometimes you just find yourself randomly placed in a blog and you're like, you know what? I really don't want to read this blog because every five seconds I'm getting hit with a newsletter thing. Put your email here. I don't want to do that. And then you scroll down the blog and maybe 5% of it's relevant. And the other 95% you're just like, this has no correlation.
This was the past. This would take hours. This was slightly annoying because the fact that a lot of the times you really had to hit bare minimum in the sense of what you're trying to solve and just like you yourself had to scour through all that data that existed on the internet and find an answer to your coding problem. But that doesn't exist anymore, which is kind of cool because now we're transitioning where all that heavy lifting, all that rabbit holes, all this searching through stack overflow, all that Reddit, we can just offload to AI now. Now I want to say this to be clear though, stack overflow, Reddit and the way of traditionally looking up and solving errors that still has potential. That still has value, right? At a certain point, these AI models may hit a ceiling where you get 90% of what you want, but you know, good old fashioned, go to that stack overflow and you'll probably get the better answer there because it's more, you know, the data is more new rather that these are trained on an older data panels such as like 2023 October, whatever it may be. The idea is that this still has validity, but honestly we're transitioning is a new age. I remember when Chad GBT, not 2.0 but 3.4, 3.5 first came out, there was a lot of pushback in the sense of like, you know what, this is not good. I'm not going to use this for my coding. It's not really relevant now. It's almost like a trying to do a math problem without a calculator. You can do it, go ahead, but you might as well use the calculator.
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