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Just full stack devs react native + go. Is it too wrong to think they are the same? Programming is programming, most computers work in a similar way no?

But they also don't know how garbage collection works in their language, or how to work with 1 million things in an efficient manner. Or why does the app pause for 100 ms because someone does sort while parsing dates within the sort.

For example, I have seen people that cant imagine what is the cost of a leaked database transaction, just back of the napkin wise, like you would think well, how many changes happened in between, how much we have to unwind when the session disconnects, when will it even disconnect because of the connection pool.. etc etc. Because the sql server is this magic rds thing. As if aws will solve everything with its pixie dust.

I wonder what will it make when you ask it to make a good bot AI for a game.

"make a game with a formidable opponent that plays good enough to win with 51% probability"

and of course the inevitable "make a better version of yourself"

Oh! this will be so cool! do you really think it could lead in that direction? To me it seems more like a metaphysical cargo cult. I think I am too pessimistic, I should shake it off, nothing good comes out of being pessimistic (by definition).

Thanks for the inspiration!

i think the 1/20th of the time was mentioned was only at start, i dont think you will gain a lot after that as the spaghetti AI will come to collect.

You have a debt to pay. -- Davy Jones

but does it really matter, if 20x is 1 week instead of 2 hours?

are startups really that shallow?

I don't understand what is going on, why are people even spending time on this? I think this and copilot and etc are solving a non problem of "we will remove the boring part of programming" by generating a bunch of code, so now it's even more boring to read it and check if it actually does what you want.

In the same time zero of the developers I interviewed know how a linked list is laid out in memory, or what is the pro/con of continuous memory layouts, or even how a cpu works actually.

Maybe those things are not needed anymore, but I see their code... I think it will be better if they know them.

traffic moved to domestic, but that doesnt mean there is no travel

> Already cut massively thanks to COVID-19.

i dont think this is true, at least booking.com has very small decrease in numbers