Threads like these remind me that Hacker News posters and my friends are two completely different types of people.

We don’t mind rideshare at all.

Ultimately this is about mastery of a tool. The problem is that you can’t teach mastery.

I can’t tell someone how to drive in ice in a way where they can really understand it. I can’t explain how certain specific news sources are biased and how to critically think. I can’t explain how to cut wood on a table saw so it’s perfectly straight. The only way to learn is through repeated usage and practice.

You can tell users that a LLM can make mistakes — and many tools do — but what does making mistakes really mean? Will it give it a recipe for a cake when I ask for a cupcake? Does it give 14 if I ask to add 3 and 4? Will it agree with me even when I suggest something totally wrong? What does hallucinate mean? That means it will give me a fantasy story if I ask how to change my oil filter?

They weren’t smooth back then by default either.

Well the stack has deepened.

10 years ago I would have expected you to know the HTTP protocol well.

But now I don’t ask about HTTP anymore and ask more about raw HTML/JS, because I also need to ask you about frontend things like accessibility.