I’m interested in making a mobile app and want to learn more about Flutter and React Native. I also thought about using the Cursor IDE. I’ve never used it before so I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to help me learn it.

This is a wild change in my behavior. This is the first in my lifetime where I’ve changed how and where I search to learn new things.

It’s a new evolution like calculators.

Our teachers in school said we’d never have a calculator all the time with us. Then we weren’t allowed to use Wikipedia.

We have calculators on our phones and Wikipedia is seen as better than ChatGPT.

I was initially scared by this, but I think it’s just inevitable change. There will always be something better created in our lifetimes.

Meta is allowing GenAI in interviews*. THIS IS INSANE. But I think so reasonable. This is how we’re working now. If a person can use GenAI better than someone who can’t, to code, to do their job better, why not?

Our job is to make money for the company, not art.

Code is ART. Or, it can be. When I read well written code, it’s like looking at a beautiful piece of art. There aren’t any more optimizations to be done. It’s “perfect”.

All code will be legacy code at some point at a successful company, and that’s freeing.

Code doesn’t lie.

Even with good comments, we have SO MUCH code to understand. GenAI is incredibly useful to get up to speed quickly. I imagine this is how Meta is allowing interviewers to use it. How do you solve this first day bug (GenAI OK)? That provides much quicker feedback to how this person will likely do on Day 1.

It’s like how we couldn’t Google things during coding interviews and it was revolutionary to allow it. This is just an evolution of coding interviews. It might take five years, but, if we’re still using AI assistants to code, it will be mainstream.

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*in “some” interviews, at this time