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🏴‍☠️ I like computers! Silicon is alive! #actuallyautistic! All hail abstraction! 🏴‍☠️

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2025-02-19 19:31:44

Developers saying “ai will not take my job, these tools produce so much tech debt” are missing the point. We are seeing multiple things:
- people who have never programmed before get to working greenfield apps that “work”. The make a big boo-boo, but you have to remember that they never coded before
- these tools are extremely capable at cleaning up booboos and “explaining” whats wrong (ie, pointing you in most often the right direction)
- people don’t just turn off their brain when they use ai, they use it for other things (say, building something they care about). Honestly this is he best use of your brain if you’re building things, and something programmers tend to either forget or are not all that interested in. But at the end of the day people want computers to do something they care about
- because they care about building things (as I did when I made my first big booboos entirely by hand, thousands of lines of basic without any structure), they will learn whatever it takes to continue building the things they want. If that requires “real” software engineering, people will learn it. How do you think any capable dev got to where they’re at?
- experienced software engineers get massive returns once they learn how to work with the tools. Now that ai coding is becoming more mainstream, I have dozens of people I can point to that went through that process. It’s a skill, don’t be deceived by the fact that prompts look like natural language
- the real velocity increase requires you to be absolutely 100% focused on quality software engineering: good consistent APIs that make it impossible to do things wrong, solid linting and unit test coverage, lots of documentation, detailed technical project planning. Humans can deal with messy code that requires thinking, llms cannot.
Instead of snarking on mastodon, I really implore my fellow devs to take a closer look, because the labor implications are real. The upside is that these tools are absolutely empowering at a personal or a small team level, again, I have dozens of people I watched experience that feeling.
You are welcome to look at my *pasttime opensource* work to judge by yourself. https://github.com/wesen
#llms #llm #aicoding #ai #chatgpt

2025-02-16 01:58:20

yeah uh it's kind of hard to concentrate at the moment isn't it...

2024-09-06 01:16:41

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@npub1qu5…4evr oh that reminds i wanted to watch that again!

2023-11-18 18:14:42

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@npub1typ…c8hh The best feature about them is locating them with "Find My" on the iphone! Lifesaving.

2023-08-29 10:45:38

to my #gardening and #permaculture peepz around here. Do you use any software or digital resources for your gardening endeavours, and if so, which ones and why?
This is meant pretty broadly, if you sell seeds and use a google sheets to manage your business, I want to hear about it.
Please boost for reach!

2023-08-09 20:12:29

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@npub1w9a…04m0 @npub1mdk…aptk I've been using whisper on my M1 and goodbye otter... the results are actually a tad better.