I hate to say it, but with all of the Rust rewrites we’re seeing (and going to keep seeing) Now is the perfect time to learn Rust. (especially lower level Rust)

Alternatively, you can do what I'm doing. I haven't bothered to learn how to write Rust by hand, because that's never going to happen. I've taught myself enough about how to read the language so that when I prompt an AI to generate it for me I can review the result. That's quite enough.

@esrtweet I’d argue that coding by hand is now a competitive advantage.

@dreamsofcode_io @esrtweet Sure, like manual machining - you might have some bespoke something or other. Meanwhile all the work gets done by computer.

@BigTanGringo @esrtweet Thought experiment: I’m hiring a developer to build a video editing application. Out of my 100 candidates. One has worked with ffmpeg before by hand, whereas the other 99 have only worked with ffmpeg through A.I. Guess which one I’m hiring.

@dreamsofcode_io @esrtweet I'm hiring the guy who can make AI sing and dance, sorry. This is the "manual machinist" copemobile all over again.