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I wrote CGI scripts in bash before it was hipster cool.

s/Old/Lazy/ because these are different properties.

There's no specific numeric old, it's all about health and fitness for "age" and adaptation for tech relevancy. What is a shame is when engineers get complacent. This can happen at any age.

AI is somewhat hype like all things that came before, but deep learning and LLMs are useful approximate automation effort multipliers and nothing more. The offerings are not (yet) instant mastery nor (yet) replacement for human experts. Long term, it's important to understand where and how to use AI as a legitimate assistant but not as substitute for learning, supervising, or thinking.




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