HarkMahlberg

Can’t wait to meet the successor to M1 Abrams: the M2 Sad Tin Can.

I’ve seen lazy developers take solutions from Stack Overflow, and paste them directly into code with no scrutiny, no testing, no validation. I’ve also seen talented developers take solutions from Stack Overflow, verify them, scrutinize them, simplify or expand on them. The difference wasn’t the source of information, but what the developer did with it.

AI is a crutch for the shameless, careless developers who create more problems than they solve. It’s just made them more efficient at it. Which only creates problems faster than than the talented developers can solve; it’s easy to destroy, but difficult to build. I know talented developers who use AI, but it hasn’t made them faster or more efficient, because their strength is also their weakness: they take their time, they evaluate their options, they scrutinize AI output because they know its prone to mistakes.

My greatest worry is the folks in the middle - they’re neither experts nor novices, just average. I want to see more engineers develop the skills needed to make them experts, but I worry that AI will just make them lazy.

That sounds like treating the symptom rather than the disease. Why automate the toil, when we could remove it instead? The other commenters brought up examples:

generating (the boring) parts of work documents

when I notice auto-generated parts, which triggers that I use AI in turn, and I ask it to summarise all that verbose AI generated content.

The AI wrote a document a human didn’t want to read, so AI then read the document AI wrote. The incentive thereafter is to save, and use, the shorter AI doc over the longer one.

Was any value created by this cycle? We just watered down the information with more automation. In the process, we probably lost nuance, detail. Alternatively, if we all agreed the document wasn’t worth a human’s eyes or keystrokes in the first place… why have the AI do anything? Sounds like we would all be happier to not have the document in the first place.

Much like programming itself, where if you have to write tons of comments to explain what you’re doing and why, your code is the problem and should be rewritten to be more legible. If you need a training seminar on how to use the program, the program maybe isn’t very usable lol.

Well that does work, so thank you for that. But I still maintain that’s crazy unintuitive. If I saw that option in a context menu at least it would be self-explanatory. But the feature as-is would only ever be known if you hovered over a single character and read the tooltip.

Nah mate, SN has no correct way to use it. The interface is fucking horrible. It’s a black hole of information. The search is a stack - if you want to remove a query at the bottom of the stack, you have to remove all the queries, then add them back one at a time. I’ve lost edits to tickets because I dared to have two tabs open at the same time. I’ve seen edits to ONE ticket end up on ANOTHER, again, because of having two tabs open.

No killer feature can redeem it when the basic workflow is hot dogshit.

Despite having a laptop in college for comp sci, I almost always took notes with pen and paper. Arrows, boxes, diagrams, small blurbs of concepts, didn’t really matter what I wrote. It was the act of writing that helped me remember it.

Not at all. I don’t know anything about Hawaii’s internal politics, so the only thing I focused on was Newsweek’s misleading headline and article writing.

I don’t think the Civil War is gonna be Maui lobbing 5.56mm at Oahu…

I hate seeing articles like this because it tees you, the commenter, up for assuming that the entire DNC decided to drop their gun control policy.

This is just for Hawaii. Hawaii voted against this.

Newsweek is such a dogshit source to be talking about in forums and threads because they write everything assuming that Democrats are a perfectly unified group, all with identical motivations, reasoning, and agendas. We know they’re not, but NW can show you a ding in a shoulder plate, and tell you the entire suit of armor is equally vulnerable.

Nothing bad ever came from underestimating your enemies right?

Anyone can be cured of liberalism before it decays into fascism.

Tankie dweeb.

We’re gonna have to get used to constantly fighting this battle. Fascists don’t get exhausted, they never rest. They have an unnatural, compulsive desire to crowbar themselves into everybody’s life. Hell, they’ll settle for anybody’s life.

They’ll literally settle for shouting on street corners like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJriMuVEPMY

I’m gonna get serious flak for saying this, but “the Irish aren’t white.” Not to MAGA. Neither are the Italians, nor the Greeks, nor the Polish. The Brits are out, we overthrew them in 1776. We beat the Germans in 1945, and the Ruskies in 1992.

You’re Catholic? You’re not welcome. You live north of Richmond? Northern Aggressor. You live in one of the 21 states with a coastline? Coastal Elitist.

It’s not “being white isn’t enough anymore,” it’s “nothing is white enough anymore.” They will find any part of your identity to discredit and ruin. And if they can’t, they’ll make one up, until they finally consume themselves.

Get ready for the Coastal Elitist North Aggressors of Colorado, the Johnsons.

God bless you Canada

Found em

Good for you.

I mean I enjoy CS2 as well but I can’t deny it had pretty major performance problems. It’s gotten better over time but launch day was a disaster.

Thanks I spat out my coffee