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I'm aware of no better way to see your desired features land in open source than to build them yourself. That is the power of open source, nobody can stop you!

zarathustreal 2y ago
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- floydnoel 2y ago
  i don't hate to be the one to tell you, but skills and context can be learnt. personally, i have found no better way to learn skills than to work on something i care about.
  - kergonath 2y ago
    Sure, and it’s the same for quite a lot of people. It does not mean that anyone can do it, for a whole lot of reasons.
    - floydnoel 2y ago
      anyone CAN do it
- kelnos 2y ago
  Perhaps the people who aren't willing or able to learn those skills shouldn't complain about what the people who do have decided to focus on.
- whimsicalism 2y ago
  honestly with chatgpt i don’t think not learning can really be an excuse anymore. not saying have it write the code, but just recursively asking for explanations and resources can get you up to speed on tons of things
  - fl0id 2y ago
    Yeah good luck with that in systems programming or anything complex. You’re not gonna get far.
    - Philpax 2y ago
      I guarantee you'll get much further than you would have previously done in the same amount of time, just by virtue of it being able to point you in the right direction. You don't need perfection when learning, you need a wayfinder, and it can do that just fine.
      - fl0id 2y ago
        It won’t point you in the right direction though. At least in my experience. It will only give very superficial answers. And fe just trying to write rust - it will try to explain the error message but most of the time says nothing new and to find out how to fix it you will have to read docs and understand things the old way anyway. At least in my experience
        Philpax 2y ago
        What can I say, Claude's been good to me for both computer science and Rust :-)
        whimsicalism 2y ago
        your experience is not my experience and i have done my share of systems programming
  - porphyra 2y ago
    I do hope that LLMs learn more from the Asahi Linux team's code and their amazing blog posts, in order to provide better guidance for new systems programmers.

zarathustreal 2y ago

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floydnoel 2y ago
i don't hate to be the one to tell you, but skills and context can be learnt. personally, i have found no better way to learn skills than to work on something i care about.
- kergonath 2y ago
  Sure, and it’s the same for quite a lot of people. It does not mean that anyone can do it, for a whole lot of reasons.
  - floydnoel 2y ago
    anyone CAN do it
kelnos 2y ago
Perhaps the people who aren't willing or able to learn those skills shouldn't complain about what the people who do have decided to focus on.
whimsicalism 2y ago
honestly with chatgpt i don’t think not learning can really be an excuse anymore. not saying have it write the code, but just recursively asking for explanations and resources can get you up to speed on tons of things
- fl0id 2y ago
  Yeah good luck with that in systems programming or anything complex. You’re not gonna get far.
  - Philpax 2y ago
    I guarantee you'll get much further than you would have previously done in the same amount of time, just by virtue of it being able to point you in the right direction. You don't need perfection when learning, you need a wayfinder, and it can do that just fine.
    - fl0id 2y ago
      It won’t point you in the right direction though. At least in my experience. It will only give very superficial answers. And fe just trying to write rust - it will try to explain the error message but most of the time says nothing new and to find out how to fix it you will have to read docs and understand things the old way anyway. At least in my experience
      - Philpax 2y ago
        What can I say, Claude's been good to me for both computer science and Rust :-)
      - whimsicalism 2y ago
        your experience is not my experience and i have done my share of systems programming
- porphyra 2y ago
  I do hope that LLMs learn more from the Asahi Linux team's code and their amazing blog posts, in order to provide better guidance for new systems programmers.