Amal Krishnan

Software Engineer

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We will do it!

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@maharshii Brahman alone is, everything is not.

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Terrorism will not go unpunished.

Every effort will be made to ensure that justice is done.

The entire nation is firm in this resolve: PM

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Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct [...] than that it will become all-powerful. More and more, computers will program themselves.”​ Statements discouraging people from learning to code are harmful!

In the 1960s, when programming moved from punchcards (where a programmer had to laboriously make holes in physical cards to write code character by character) to keyboards with terminals, programming became easier. And that made it a better time than before to begin programming. Yet it was in this era that Nobel laureate Herb Simon wrote the words quoted in the first paragraph. Today’s arguments not to learn to code continue to echo his comment.

As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer!

Over the past few decades, as programming has moved from assembly language to higher-level languages like C, from desktop to cloud, from raw text editors to IDEs to AI assisted coding where sometimes one barely even looks at the generated code (which some coders recently started to call vibe coding), it is getting easier with each step.

I wrote previously that I see tech-savvy people coordinating AI tools to move toward being 10x professionals — individuals who have 10 times the impact of the average person in their field. I am increasingly convinced that the best way for many people to accomplish this is not to be just consumers of AI applications, but to learn enough coding to use AI-assisted coding tools effectively.

One question I’m asked most often is what someone should do who is worried about job displacement by AI. My answer is: Learn about AI and take control of it, because one of the most important skills in the future will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want, so it can do that for you. Coding (or getting AI to code for you) is a great way to do that.

When I was working on the course Generative AI for Everyone and needed to generate AI artwork for the background images, I worked with a collaborator who had studied art history and knew the language of art. He prompted Midjourney with terminology based on the historical style, palette, artist inspiration and so on — using the language of art — to get the result he wanted. I didn’t know this language, and my paltry attempts at prompting could not deliver as effective a result.

Similarly, scientists, analysts, marketers, recruiters, and people of a wide range of professions who understand the language of software through their knowledge of coding can tell an LLM or an AI-enabled IDE what they want much more precisely, and get much better results. As these tools are continuing to make coding easier, this is the best time yet to learn to code, to learn the language of software, and learn to make computers do exactly what you want them to do.

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Bathery, one fine windy evening.

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Blathur, one fine sunny day.

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The antidote to despondency is action.

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@bcardarella Did a few variations with a slight change to the "V" symbol, what do you think ?

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https://t.co/pCa9yP6VMy

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Check out my new blogpost titled "Don't think, Just Do". A light-hearted take on finally doing stuff we want to.

https://t.co/aXz9R5UvQu

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I am pretty "deep" into the Elixir World these days so I thought it was a good time to step back and enumerate all the incredible stuff Elixir and Phoenix can do for us.

https://t.co/30pdtY0NBx (also this is my favorite cover art so far!)

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Obsidian for Mobile is finally here!

Get it at https://t.co/Y9fLQtq96u

We're also on Product Hunt and Hacker News today. If you're an active member of these communities, we'd appreciate if you can swing by to support our launch!

Product Hunt link: https://t.co/NJWZxAqpdv

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#blender #Blender3d

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Trying out blender, followed a tutorial by the awesome @SmeafSculpts . As a beginner this was amazing stuff for me !!

Check it out here https://t.co/5vDdPGws3E

#blender #Blender3d

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@warikoo BSNL !! 😁 , The approachability part is debatable though

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OnePlus 9R Stock Camera Photos - Mildly Post processed

#OnePlus9R #OnePlus9R5G #OnePlus9Series @oneplus @OnePlus_IN #photography #India #Oneplus

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@FujifilmxI Are there Vishu offers for X-S10 Kit ???

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Free for Developers https://t.co/9jA1cYlP5B

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@Sharat_Chander @java I only write once !

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Apple: Fix all MacBook Pro 2016 and later with stage light effect or backlight shutdown #flexgate - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/VuiJVm3gNu via @ChangeOrg_India