windward

That's optimistic in itself, because it implies that being corrected (assuming we are correct) will right his path to seeing the value in his effort.

A more concerning option is that he does see the value, but the temptation of the zero-effort-machine is too strong.

Learning to put in enough effort for engineering takes - took - years of education, where double digit percentages failed each year. Some of us barely made it through the filter. I have no confidence I would if I encountered it as a youth today.

It was a huge thing, and I lived through all of it, yet never ran into a problem where copy-and-pasting would have been the lowest resistance solution. I never even ran into a problem where asking the question and waiting for a response would have made more sense than asking internally or working through it myself. The most difficult problems are relatively conceptual, which SO didn't like anyway.

I never really got it. I think it depended bigly on which domain and stack you were in.

>Patience, attention to detail, staying on task.

These skills are all less valuable today, btw, along with roughly anything that would have allowed someone to thrive economically pre-2025 in spite of occasional accusations of high-functioning autism.

The issue is not that programming is getting automated. The issue is that the only skills that retain value are in low supply among programmers - and every other career you've considered retraining for.

Great time to be in sales.

I wasn't born on the path!

The strongest evidence for AI art being too uncanny is that people are still paying artists to draw cartoon porn.

I do feel that Codex and Claude are both bad at something I'm good at: writing documentation. But it doesn't matter, because no human reads it. I'm spending a lot of time rewriting its output just for it to be piped back in again.

And that's just sorting out my self-image. Convincing someone who controls the pursestrings that I'm adding value was hard already.

It's odd, the stereotype of software developers is a know-it-all attitude, but start talking about types and you get excuses that boil down to 'I'm incapable of learning to understand the thing you learned to understand'.

Do the reading b/c there's a machine that has done all the reading so it's hard to add value if you maintain the anti-intellectualism of 2010s software dev.

Football fans have shown they're quite eager to tell Infantino where to stick his revenue sharing.

Yes, we're discussing how the users change the way traffic flows.

>They work perfectly fine.

I don't want to celebrate UK roads too much. The majority of roundabout users in the UK are not indicating properly. Too many people are stopping at them when they have priority. Lanes are just a suggestion and using the correct lane is an invitation for someone to drive into the left of you.

In other areas: enough people don't know how to use a slip road that it becomes a problem to those who do. Likewise the flashing ambers of a pelican crossing. Lane discipline is much worse than on the continent, to the point you can see it creating traffic jams. Lots of people are driving big cars without the confidence needed to remain in their own lane.

There are millions of drivers who've never passed a theory test. We could do with more ruthlessness.

Smartphones are worse computing devices than laptops or desktops. Smartphones are also the most widely-used computing devices in the world, even by people sat at home with a better computing device on the other side of the room. History suggests worse just doesn't matter in the face of convenience.

Do you carry a laptop everywhere you go?

>in a tight pocket

Oh, well there's the problem. Apple isn't catering to millennial jeans fits any more. Only half-joking.

It's a notebook