Sure ya did buddy

It just means they liked hollow Knight

And after all that you have to use Windows.

Not really. Might have to update the keychain first or update the package mirrors of it’s a very long time but it’s not a huge deal

https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/ is more thoughtful and interesting

Yup they could use nano -/0, or they could just use micro.

A note: I couldn’t find -/ referenced online easily though when I checked it is indeed there. On Mac nano redirects to pico by default which doesn’t have that either. I think it’s understandable someone would just choose to use micro

It’s not that they want more features - it’s that in micro for instance copy is ctrl+c which everyone already knows, where in nano it’s different

Using it for the sometimes spot on cakewalk segments is a fairly productive win.

One thing that absolutely blows my mind is how many people will say how much time it saves then with repetitive or boilerplate code. It is obvious these people have never actually tried to optimize their workflow even a little bit before. Regex replace, snippets, and keyboard macros have existed in text editors forever and are actually deterministic.

Yes. Acting like an LLM over a programming language is anything close to a higher level over lower level programming language makes you completely full of shit.

Comparing it to an (almost) entirely complete abstraction where you (almost) never have any benefit to looking under the covers like c over assembler is completely dishonest.

Now it’s spent refining the analysis so that the LLM stops producing slop

The thing is that actually doing this isn’t faster than writing the code, robs the practitioner of learning, and more often than not doesn’t actually happen, so you have a harder to maintain codebase with more bugs and less knowledgeable developers to maintain it.

Edit: and as a fun bonus accelerates glacier melting!

I’m my experience people give tech demos, everyone is impressed, my coworkers say it makes them multiples faster, then I have more work making sure the wheels don’t fall off.

Arch is the most stable Linux I’ve used. The only problem I’ve ever had is not using one for long enough that the keyring and mirrors were stale, and that wasn’t difficult to fix.

What are you smoking? People aren’t choosing to continue working 40 hour weeks or multiple part time jobs because they want to. They are doing it because the economy is structured to coerce them to.

He’s not writing anything professionally anyway. His whole job is to tell other people how to work (badly)

I could maybe give him some leeway if the examples in the book itself showed responsible code, but they simply do not

had a good idea and wrote a good book

I read the book after asking some junior engineers why they kept insisting on breaking straightforward tasks that could be a single pure function into a web of stateful method calls and learned they were being recommended it by another senior dev.

That book is one of the major contributors to the object oriented enterprise Java from the 90s that everyone universally loathes.

I personally think this discussion is probably the greatest thing he had contributed to software engineering, and not because it puts him in a positive light. https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code/blob/main/README.md

When I went to look up the term “magpie developer” I saw this and had a chuckle https://magpie-lang.com/

The funny thing is that it wasn’t even a good book.

this man holds no significant position of prominence within the industry.

I wish that was true but I’ve had to specifically countermand his teachings at 2 different companies because newbies were being told to read his book