Today I was using $tool with some dense docs and average forums. In a moment of weakness, I asked an LLM. It said, "just use strpos! :magic_wand:". Of course, strpos didn't exist, but it was in the question for the top result on Google for my problem: "I want to do x with $tool, kind of like strpos in $other_tool". After the impressiveness of the language generation wears off, it's just another bullshit generator and man I've had enough of bullshit these days.
You've assumed there's only one reason for designing a language and based your opinion around that, which makes it shallow and not terribly convincing.
Yep, they remind me of the free 'domains' you used to be able to get back in 2000-2005 that were crap like mydomain.ko.cc. By far the least legitimate one I see is .ai - I seem to immediately write those off as some half-baked chatgpt wrapper, or worse a landing page for a product that doesn't exist that would also just be a chatgpt wrapper if enough fools handover their email address. That said, I do like .io for tech sites. I think domains by area/industry are mostly sensible.
One annoying part of the new AI world is these worthless AI-generated diagrams. I don't mean AI generated the pixels, I mean it was asked to generate docs, maybe even a "system diagram", and the result is just noise.
>There isn't a book on earth that could answer the question "which remaining parts of my codebase still use the .permission_allowed() method and what edge-cases do they have that would prevent them from being upgraded to the new .allowed() mechanism"?
You're so close to realising why the book counter argument doesn't make any sense!
If you want to shit talk LLMs, you better come armed with research, buddy. Claims about how it will revolutionise every profession just need n=1 anecdata though.
Historical comparison: "I just had a pizza delivered on the new Segway and it was super duper cool because they came right into the conference center, so say goodbye to cars and bikes, by 2025 it's all going to be Personal People Movers!"
That said, I think LLMs will have a bigger effect than a self-balancing scooter, both positively and negatively.
>After you made your colleagues upset submitting crappy code for review, you start to pay attention.
If the only thing keeping you from submitting crappy code is an emotional response from coworkers, you are not a "good programmer", no matter what you instruct your LLM.
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