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Conversations of the future... "Can you believe that Dad actually used to have to go into an office and type code all day long, MAUALLY??! Line by line, with

Conversations of the future... "Can you believe that Dad actually used to have to go into an office and type code all day long, MAUALLY??! Line by line, with no advice from AI, he had to think all by himself!"

aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> "Can you believe that Dad actually used to have to go into an office and type code all day long, MAUALLY??! Line by line, with no advice from AI, he had to think all by himself!" Grumpy old man: "That's exactly why our generation was so much smarter than today's whippersnappers: we were thinking from morning to night the whole long day."
- duskdozer 7mo ago
  >What's ~~a computer~~ thinking?
ares623 7mo ago
More likely: "Dad, I've sent out 1000 applications and haven't had a call back. I can't take it anymore. Has it always been like this?" The Dad: It's not my fault!
allenu 7mo ago
I was thinking about that recently. Maybe decades from now people will look at things like the Linux kernel or Doom and be shocked that mere humans were able to program large codebases by hand.
- iamflimflam1 7mo ago
  It must have been: Aliens Atlanteans Time travellers A hoax …
- johnisgood 7mo ago
  Hmm, can you think of anything that we could do decades ago but cannot do it now, today?
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  - c0_0p_ 7mo ago
    Fly supersonic commercially is the only thing I can think of
  - allenu 7mo ago
    I was being a little facetious, but there are things that most people would find tedious today that we would put up with in the past. Writing anything long by hand (letters, essays), doing accounting without a spreadsheet, writing a game in only assembly language, using punch cards, typesetting newspapers and books manually...
  - vinyl7 7mo ago
    Build the pyramids
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bitwize 7mo ago
This was literally part of the premise of The Jetsons. George's job was to press a single button while the computer RUDI did all the work. The difference is, Jetsons wasn't a dystopia (unlike the current timeline), so when Mr. Spacely fired George, RUDI would take his side and refuse to work until George was re-hired.
bot403 7mo ago
I had to run Jenkins to build my code. In the snow. And uphill on git pull and deploy.

aleph_minus_one 7mo ago

> "Can you believe that Dad actually used to have to go into an office and type code all day long, MAUALLY??! Line by line, with no advice from AI, he had to think all by himself!" Grumpy old man: "That's exactly why our generation was so much smarter than today's whippersnappers: we were thinking from morning to night the whole long day."

duskdozer 7mo ago
>What's ~~a computer~~ thinking?

ares623 7mo ago

More likely: "Dad, I've sent out 1000 applications and haven't had a call back. I can't take it anymore. Has it always been like this?" The Dad: It's not my fault!

allenu 7mo ago

I was thinking about that recently. Maybe decades from now people will look at things like the Linux kernel or Doom and be shocked that mere humans were able to program large codebases by hand.

iamflimflam1 7mo ago
It must have been: Aliens Atlanteans Time travellers A hoax …
johnisgood 7mo ago
Hmm, can you think of anything that we could do decades ago but cannot do it now, today?
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  [deleted]
- c0_0p_ 7mo ago
  Fly supersonic commercially is the only thing I can think of
- allenu 7mo ago
  I was being a little facetious, but there are things that most people would find tedious today that we would put up with in the past. Writing anything long by hand (letters, essays), doing accounting without a spreadsheet, writing a game in only assembly language, using punch cards, typesetting newspapers and books manually...
- vinyl7 7mo ago
  Build the pyramids
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    [deleted]

bitwize 7mo ago

This was literally part of the premise of The Jetsons. George's job was to press a single button while the computer RUDI did all the work. The difference is, Jetsons wasn't a dystopia (unlike the current timeline), so when Mr. Spacely fired George, RUDI would take his side and refuse to work until George was re-hired.

bot403 7mo ago

I had to run Jenkins to build my code. In the snow. And uphill on git pull and deploy.