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Comment · 19 days ago
Not for long. Prompt engineering is only a stop gap measure. Its value is decreasing day by day.
Comment · 24 days ago
Just remove Windows 11, duh!
Comment · 26 days ago
Indians are already a mixed race: ancient (pre Aryan) Iranian hunter-gatherers + eurasian steppe (Aryan) + ancient south Indians etc.
Comment · 1 month ago
It would have been okay if he stopped there. I think success went to his head and he became the BSer-in-chief of the software industry after that. The Emperor has no clothes.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I don't like Martin Fowler. He is the archetype of the architect astronaut. The OG bullshit meister.

I like LLMs for stuff I don't care about. Programming is not one of them.

Comment · 1 month ago
> serious question: do you program in machine code or assembler

Sometimes yes.

> or use a higher level language? do you use design patterns and functional approaches? metaprogramming, code generation, templating, app frameworks?

Most of the time.

> Each tool, abstraction, language feature elevates coding to get more done with less (more concisely)

Sure. I hope you understand AI is fundamentally different. It's nothing like the things you listed above.

Comment · 1 month ago
90's high school hobby programmer. I'd rather not use AI for programming if given the chance. For everything else I am pro AI.
Comment · 1 month ago
Sure, if that is what you like. I for one did not get into this field because I wanted to hire people (artificial or natural) to write the programs for me. Programming as an activity / art is what I enjoyed the most. Managing people / agents is a total turn off.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is precisely what the word quote means!
Comment · 1 month ago
> I can prototype working projects in possibly 1/30th the time, and I can do them simultaneously.

This takes all the fun out of programming for me.

Comment · 2 months ago
Some say this war was started to distract from the Epstein files issue.
Comment · 2 months ago
Most laypeople I know haven't seen an ad blocker in action ever.
Comment · 3 months ago
Is there a name for the phenomenon in which you look at something and know that there is something wrong with it but struggle to identify the problem?

I got this feeling looking at the (non)word cantine.

Comment · 4 months ago
How do you run this thing? What kind of hardware do you need?

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