I miss the grind of writing software before AI
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I learned HTML at 10, spent an entire summer figuring out how to link webpages together. At 14 I built a CNN-based security camera system for a school science fair - took months, 14-16 hour days, and I had no idea what I was doing when I started. Today I told Claude to fine-tune an LLM on my X posts. Prompt to finished model with a web UI in 30 minutes. I was impressed and unsatisfied at the same time. I achieved my goal but learned nothing - I don't even know which libraries it used. I'm not anti-AI. I use it for everything now.