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Yes. It's so dramatically better it's not even funny. It's not that information doesn't exist out there, it's more that an LLM can give it to you in a few secon
by mgfist 1y ago
Yes. It's so dramatically better it's not even funny. It's not that information doesn't exist out there, it's more that an LLM can give it to you in a few seconds and it's tailored to your specific situation. The second part is especially helpful if the internet answer is 95% correct but is missing something specific to you that ends up taking you 20 minutes to figure out.
- bluefirebrand 1y ago> that ends up taking you 20 minutes to figure out That 20 minutes, repeated over and over over the course of a career, is the difference between being a master versus being an amateur You should value it, even if your employer doesn't. Your employer would likely churn you into ground beef if there was a financial incentive to, never forget that
- mgfist 1y agoYeah I strongly disagree. I want to spend time figuring the things that important to me and my career. I could care less about the one regex I write every year. Especially when I've learned and forgotten the syntax more times than I can count.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoThere's a funny quote about regex "You had a problem. You tried to solve it with regex. Now you have two problems" 1) your original problem 2) your broken regex I would like to propose an addition "You had a problem. You tried to solve it with AI generated regex. Now you have three problems" 1) your original problem 2) your broken regex 3) your reliance on AI