Well, that’s fair. I haven’t seen analysis on that score.

Sure, but they didn’t do it alone. If every last one of them voted for Kamala she’d still have lost. His popular vote would’ve been even worse but the electoral votes still wouldn’t have been close.

Logically, you would be right. My practical experience is I waste a lot less time trying to google multiple explanations something because one by itself isn’t helping me figure it out, writing bugged PoC test code and thinking something is broken, sorting through a bunch of things that haven’t been relevant for 3 versions, etc.

Of course the AI is trained on the same material we can an all find and read, but it does it orders of magnitude more quickly. The trade off is that it’s not always right, but neither am I and neither are most sources on the internet right in all circumstances. But it’s so fast and easy that I can iterate and evolve designs and understanding much more quickly than I could on my own.

It sounds like you are a much better developer than me, but to be fair I’ve had to teach myself everything using nothing but books and Google for thirty years. I’ve rarely had the luxury of working with someone who had the knowledge to mentor me, and never got a degree outside an AAS in electronics, so I’ve probably missed some critical skills along the way.

In a lot of ways, the AI fills that role because it’s better at answering questions than it is writing code. Earlier today it was explaining to me how a DOM selector could return a stale element in some cases in a failing end to end test. It took a few back and forths with some code examples before I really understood why the selectors might not be working.

It also suggested some code changes that I had to push back on because, even though the code had errors, the errors weren’t causing the problem. While building an array of validators I had awaited them, causing them to run serially instead of in parallel during Promise.all(). So you definitely have to know what you’re doing to avoid having the AI waste your time (or at least more time than it takes to push back).

I’m still trying to debug it, but without the AI, I’d be googling the fuck out of typescript syntax, JavaScript idiosyncrasies, and a whole testing framework I’ve never seen before.

So…

if the only real value that AI provides is “you don’t need to know the libraries you’re using”

…returns false.

He’s 100% right and was only a little less professional than I think was deserved. A little too focused on the personal rather than the commit and wrongheadedness of the email itself. Anyone could submit a bad patch.

Was there a similarly harsh invective sent to whomever approved the PR in the first place? I’d bet so.

Many sites will just geo-block the UK. I think my Lemmy instance has, just like PornHub has blocked US states that have passed similar laws.

Within banking apps it has become the norm

“The fucking fuck?” — America

If that was a 10% boost for you and you could’ve done it in 33 minutes without AI or experience, then my imposter syndrome has been right all along!

I’d bet that would’ve taken me a few days and maybe buying a reference book and starting with hello world.

It won’t do that well. What you have to do is ask it to help you leverage your existing development skills in an unfamiliar domain. I used it to help me write a python program to authenticate, pull and filter data from a GCP firestore database and create an XLSX with summary and detail sheets.

I’ve never used Python before in my life. It took me about 4 hours. Of course I’ve been doing that sort of thing in Java for many years. Turned out I wrote that faster in Python than I could in Java. Configuring the connection to that database in Python was so simple compared to Java.

The stuff it wrote was sometimes incomplete or wrong in subtle ways, but I could see the bits that didn’t make sense which helped me focus on those things and ask better questions to help me figure it out. I think the last hour was just me tweaking stuff by myself because I didn’t need help with it by that point.

“Feds say…”

I don’t believe a fucking word.

Feel free to stay on Windows or MacOS or whatever floats your boat. Won’t bother anyone.

If I understand the gist, I’ll just say I’d like my job to be some stuff I’m good and some stuff that challenges me. When I do nothing but challenge myself, imposter syndrome sets in. When I do nothing but the stuff that I’m good at, it gets really boring. I need to find a better mix than I have been.

I’m a very good engineer, but so much of my time is consumed fighting with Tekton pipelines and migrating testing frameworks and versions I barely have time to write code. But that’s because I can figure that stuff out when I have to. All the code is written by the people who can’t figure that stuff out.

Why this isn’t two separate jobs I can’t understand. Let me do some stuff I’m good at rather than constantly fighting with things I’m not?

Why do these sorts of people think, “we can’t stay in business if we’re not allowed to <description of abuse >,” means they should be allowed to abuse instead of put out of business? Does it really never occur to them that they should be supplanted by better alternatives?

Their heads are so far up their own asses they forget ‘if’ offers two solutions.

I wonder if they vibe coded it?

I need to know the success rate of human agents in Mumbai (or some other outsourcing capital) for comparison.

I absolutely think this is not a good fit for AI, but I feel like the presumption is a human would get it right nearly all of the time, and I’m just not confident that’s the case.

You son of a bitch, I’m in!

Nah, I came here to make this comment and you already have it well in hand. It’s not really any different other than the marketing spin, though. Companies have always had bad code and hired specialists to sort it out. And over half of the specialists suck, too, and so the merry-go-round spins.

votes to deport immigrants

gets deported

“How can you do this?”

Their plan is that we’ll earn money doing the jobs robots won’t or are too expensive to do. Giving them handjobs at breakfast, or fighting lions with a knife on PPV. Whatever we can do to give them a moment’s respite from the gray boredom of incomparable wealth, privilege, and pointlessness.

“Can I phone a fascist?”