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Do you know of any company that banned IDEs and went back to plain text only editing? Do you know of any company that banned compilers and went back to hand wr
by rokob 2mo ago
Do you know of any company that banned IDEs and went back to plain text only editing?
Do you know of any company that banned compilers and went back to hand written assembly?
Do you know of any company that banned stack overflow and went back to figuring everything out?
- ramblerman 2mo agoSomeone answered the question with some actual examples. Please refrain from the hyperbole
- i2km 2mo agoExactly. It's quite scary that some people are reacting viciously to this type of question. There's real insecurity here...
- archagon 2mo agoLLM use breeds insecurity, as well it should.
- rpdillon 2mo agoAnd those examples were not cases where companies went back to manual work after using AI. They were examples of companies regretting laying off their experts. The point GP is making, which I understand seems dismissive, is that AI is a tool that people are not retreating from, because it offers the same sorts of gains as previous tool improvements we've seen in the field: from compilers to IDEs to sites like Stack Overflow. I think adding AI to that group of improvements makes a ton of sense, as it has the capacity to provide similar gains in productivity.
- ape4 2mo agoThose things don't hallucinate. (Of course, stackoverflow can be wrong but at least its peer reviewed)
- rokob 2mo agoThe best part of the downvoting of this is the answer to all of these is yes. Companies have banned all of these in the past when they were coming up. If you don’t learn from the past, …