Programming Skills that AIs Cannot Have & How You Learn Them

Even as good as modern AIs are, there are things they just can't do - and many experts say they can't be capable of doing.

If you're a programmer - you don't want to compete with the AIs on the tasks the AIs can do - and will continue to get better at.

Learn how to distinguish your work, and yourself, and get the advantage.

00:00 Welcome to 2025
00:53 Basis of these assertions
02:11 Intro
02:34 Limitations of current LLM AIs
03:42 What you can learn
05:13 Example Number One
07:00 AIs cannot do that
07:27 Bad Human Programmers
08:50 AIs and Context-Free Programming
09:15 What people get wrong about Programming
11:40 Newly-introduced external bugs
12:58 How to get Started
13:45 Example Number Two
14:58 Building your own thing
16:22 Outro

Links/References:

# Understanding Deep Learning Book by Simon J. D. Prince
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048644/understanding-deep-learning/

# Interview with Simon Prince on the @MachineLearningStreetTalk podcast:
https://youtu.be/sJXn4Cl4oww?t=5780

#Roko’s Basilisk
https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/rokos-basilisk-the-most-terrifying-thought-experiment-of-all-time.html
https://www.basiliskfoundation.com/what-is-rokos-basilisk

# "Lost in the Middle" Problem with AI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172

# my "Starting a Side Project" video
https://youtu.be/iMDiYX7P4ds

# ISO8601 Standard
https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

# The movie "Memento" (2000)
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/77-memento?language=en-US
https://collider.com/memento-movie-anterograde-amnesia/