Guido van Rossum
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but something that challenges you into actually learning coding in some language.
Nowadays, you can take machine learning components and sort of
plug those things together.
Do cool stuff with them.
Yeah, you can't expect to learn Python from a one-hour video.
I'm blanking out on the name of someone who
who wrote a very funny blog post where he said, I see all these ads for things like learn Python in 10 days or so.
And he said, the goal should be learn Python in 10 years.
Well, you have to practice.
You can memorize the syntax,
Well, I couldn't, but maybe someone else can, but that doesn't make you a coder.
But do you know where that is going?
No, seriously.
GitHub Copilot.
Yeah, Copilot.
I use it every day.
Really?
Yeah, it writes a lot of code for me.
And usually it's slightly wrong, but it still saves me typing.
Because all I have to do is change one word in a line of text that otherwise it generated perfectly.