These days, technology feels like it’s moving so much faster than it ever did when I was younger. Especially with AI having blown up in the time between the start and end of my college career, I feel like the field is moving much too fast for me to keep up with. Although, in a way, I can’t say I mind all that much.
Considering that I’ve never worked in any CompSci-related field, it’s hard for me to feel personally affected by this gold-rush sort of feeling that AI has created in the past few years. And the AI resources that are available for someone who doesn’t feel like paying for tokens is quite limited. The combination of those factors has made me more or less apathetic to these advancements, which has given me some breathing room to simply focus on the fundamentals.
While I’m no artist by any stretch of the word, I do like to study drawing. One of the things I learned early on is that you have to practice the fundamentals if you’re going to get anywhere. Initially, I thought that I could simply get a drawing tablet and be on my way to digital art without much of a problem. But even digital art benefits from things such as perspective, lighting and form. In the same manner, no amount of AI can really replace the benefits you gain by understanding how computers work at the hardware level, or the knowledge you gain by building a small program in an assembly language.
So, even if I am to be left in the dust for a time, I don’t doubt my ability to catch up in the long-run. At least I believe that will be the case in comparison to people who rely solely on AI to get results over their own abilities as a developer. Though I suppose time will tell how my prediction goes.
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