If your goal is to become a fundamentally sound computer scientist, this may be good advice.
However, if - like 99% of software developers in the workforce - your goal is to work on software until you earn enough that you no longer have to, then ignore this awful advice and focus on learning the tools that are becoming ubiquitous and mandatory is most roles.
Otherwise you are pre-assigning yourself to irrelevance, equivalent to programmers refusing to use operating systems, compilers, runtimes, etc.
> Do you not understand that, at the end of the day, you'll also still stuck living in the nightmarish hellscape you spend your days trying to usher in?
I live by the sea and spend most of my time with family or working in healthcare. Software for me pays the bills and the less time I spend on it, the better.
LLMs allow me to spend ~1/3rd the time I used to without impacting my remuneration. Of course I use them, in the same way I use email rather than snail, machine language rather than soldering, python rather assembly, git rather than _v244_FINAL, and any number of other abstractions and tools that separate me from the actual bits.
> Healthcare workers aren't negatively affected by having to put up with shitty software that doesn't actually work?
Is your position that code produced with LLMs is _worse_ than the average human developer working alone? I would be far happier if the software I am forced to use professionally had been produced by developers guided by LLMs.
But even if you are right, most software developers don't work on anything important and most don't care about the software they output. You're an enthusiast, which is very much an outlier in software development, and so maybe learning the fundamentals from logic gates is worth it to you (it was to me). LLMs can accelerate that learning immensely.
For the vast majority of people employed writing software, that's not true and forgoing LLMs will permanently stifle their employment prospects.
However, if - like 99% of software developers in the workforce - your goal is to work on software until you earn enough that you no longer have to, then ignore this awful advice and focus on learning the tools that are becoming ubiquitous and mandatory is most roles.
Otherwise you are pre-assigning yourself to irrelevance, equivalent to programmers refusing to use operating systems, compilers, runtimes, etc.