I agree. Questions like this often seem to come from people who don’t *want* to use AI, or perhaps are afraid of it for whatever reason, and they’re looking for reasons that they shouldn’t use it.

It was Andrej Karpathy, one of the world’s top AI engineers.

Description of the term: https://x.com/karpathy/status/...

About him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I’ve stopped arguing with people about it (mostly haha) for this reason. They’re either going to have to figure it soon enough without our help, or as you say be left behind.

This matches how I use it. I’ll add a few other points:

4. Writing the first core version of a service or UI. I’ll typically use close to 100% of those generated lines, and then continue building with LLM assistance where it makes sense. It makes a big difference to development velocity.
5. Finding bugs. If some bug isn’t obvious to me, provide the code to an LLM and describe the problem. Its success rate is high.
6. Working with tech I’m not particularly familiar with (an extension of your #3, i.e. learning)
7. Writing documentation.
8. Reverse engineering existing code, i.e. describe some code to me so I don’t have to dig through it in detail.
9. Writing unit tests.

What do you object to, her support for equality or her opposition to genocide? Or is it that a woman stated an opinion?

So, the functional equivalent of reasoning?

Are you saying that ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek etc. “make heavy use of external tools” to write code? Because they all write pretty good code, up to a certain size of program. Certainly far better than the average human, who can’t code at all; or the average software developer, who isn’t really very good.

That pretty much happened to me. Too much gamification plus time equals the speed runners taking over.

I was thinking the same thing.

What do you think contact tracing is? Some sort of people tracking? Like the state puts little tracking devices on everyone so they know where people are at all time? That's not what contact tracing is.

Contact tracing is asking someone who has the infection to remember who they came into contact so that these people can be warned they have the infection.

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I remember when IBM did the same thing in 2001! Slashdot carried the story.

Quote:

They claim their ad campaign is done in "bio degradable chalk" but that, even after a rain storm, "the penguins were still there ... smiling broadly."

An IBM employee got 30 days community service in Chicago.

> I'd hate to become one of those angry od guys, pissed off that there is a GUI, or whatever they are mad about.

For the record, I am not mad there's a GUI. GUIs are good. :-)

There's that European(?) bill that legislated a cooking confirmation dialog so I'd say the US and EU are now competing for the world's stupid web design legislation.

I'd like a Firefox checkbox for blocking bad government please.

While there maybe people who avoid hurting others by avoiding conflict, we can both agree that is stupid.

But that's not how it works! You have to have that conflict *and* not hurt their feelings. This is much harder to do. That is why there are books on how to do this. That's why people take classes on how to do this. If you can master this the project goes along much smoother because people communicate openly. There's less chance of a bitter argument developing. More contributors. More diversity of opinions are considered leading to innovative solutions. Better code. It's also a ton of fun.

If you can master giving feedback without hurting feelings you'll get both better code and a more harmonious project.

It's hard but so is programming. Why is all the good stuff so hard :-) ?