This is a short thesis on why learning is not useless in the age of AI, and why you should gaslight yourself into caring.
Top Good Reasons why going deeper is good for you: To allow all of the abstract tools to handle systems for you means you will grow further apart from the meat and potatoes. MCP this, CRM that, Agents managing agents talking to agents (oh good heavens..)
In the day of age of pointing fingers at others wrapping chat as a “product”--
By that same token, ai usage is a wrapper for dealing with libraries, libraries are just a wrapper for implementation built by people more competent —python is a just c++ wrapper, C is just an assembly wrapper(its not), assembly is just a wrapper for machine code, machine code is just a wrapper for the 70’s scientist who pioneered the earliest punch hole cards.
Math is just a wrapper for the way the universe behaves consistently, so yea, don’t learn that shit either. Propositions are just wrappers for conjectures you weren’t able to discover or prove. Your institution’s staff members are just a wrapper for the course material.
Your skin is just a wrapper for your diet so no need to worry about what you consume. Then when health issues arrive in your 40s you won’t know where it came from under the hood.
Your manager is just a wrapper for the orgs employees, and those more senior are also wrapping everyone beneath. Abstract again, and your client’s opinions on your service is just a wrapper for the decisions that need to be made in the organization. How high the interest rate is and the American economy is just a wrapper forecasting how the landscape behaves. Ragebaiting trump tweets are just a wrapper for market sentiment funneling into gambling bets.
The point of these useless comparisons is to mock lousy internet words like “wrapper”. what even the heck is that. cs is the study of abstraction—and if you can go deep then you can prolly come back up, but not the other way around.
Learning has prolly never been more important bcuz when problems do eventually surface, you may regret never considering good practice. (In systems, or in your own life).
So the next time your inner monologue tells you that what you're working on is painful, tedious or head-banging inducing, just remind yourself that you are just a wrapper of your parents' efforts, encapsulating decades of immigration and language speaking bugs.
And if you believe life to be somewhat deterministic, at least in metaphysics philosophy, you are just a wrapper for every previous event or decision you have made in life.