You can’t silence your way out of your skin. Your skin follows you. Its likely tied to culture that’s not the same. It’s associated with being inferior by way of statistics in ways white people don’t. If you’re a woman, now it’s even harder

You’ve contributed so much with this comment.

Absolutely. The great thing is you can ask ton of questions quickly to build your own knowledge quickly. It makes you faster not by doing the understanding for you. It can write tests to prove things pretty quickly. It can help find connections. Not fool proof ever, but it speeds up searches in your code base.

And that’s the point. You don’t have to consume everything all the time w/ AI/LLMs. But if you don’t pay attn, 1) You’ll likely make mistakes on things which didn’t work out, like zero-shot prompting, or which models do better on which languages and 2) you’ll have to play catch up.

On git? Did you know git would have won over HG, or Fossil? What about using git submodules, or bisect? You can do the research now that I wrote it out, but would you have known about them before hand? What about all the hook features?

And git can be hard, esp if people around you don’t know it as well as you do, or people above you know it better than you do. Which again is a problem of people getting in way too late.

We are at an infection point with software. Similar to AWS was about fifteen-twenty years ago, or git. If you ignore it, you’re behind the curve. Now’s the time to experiment, figure out the good and bad. Not all orgs are going face first. Some of us are learning along with it.

Where it shines for me? Really small changes in a complex system. I can’t store all the context all the time. Business requirements, security ones, aesthetic ones. Where it shines is if you suss out small changes thoroughly, it’s a great text generating engine.

All of that said, the side effects of data centers and pump and dump stocks, are absolutely horrid. Hopefully on the other side of it we come to something more sane.

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If you are owning every little part of the design in every nuance, sure. But how do you configure this in mysqll, postgres, etc etc. does your favorite framework support this easily.

They’re going to kill their name brand of “googling” things

What

I’m likely older than you for one.

Two, you’re right. Let’s get in Cuomo or Sliwa.

Seriously though, do you expect him to just go and fire the cop directly? That’s not his job. Gut the NYPD until it happens? Great, new problems. This is a tough place and clearly you don’t remember when people before Adams.

Did you expect him to go beat them up?

The key takeaway for me is if you’re used to it, stopping or starting is like flipping your portrait photos on a vertical axis. I’m sure if I started and stuck with it, I would get used to it. But then I’m also picky enough that when my color schemes change from job to job, or software to software, I would just get annoyed.

I’m of that minority. I don’t like looking at Skittles all day so I never turned it on way back when. When I see it it’s uncomfortable. But I’ve been so comfortable reading code, I don’t think I’ve felt like I’m missing something by not having syntax highlighting.

The only time it’s ever useful is on the missing braces and the such, but I’ve built so many habits that I don’t run into that often and when I do I have very simple ways of getting around it. 🤷