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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
I have no idea what I'm looking at but it's cool AF.
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10mo ago
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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
Instead of becoming a people manager you're just a bot manager. Same roles, different underlings.
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10mo ago
Some people just call this "meditation".
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10mo ago
And now you can generate javascript infested slop frameworks for $5 per million tokens. Such an improvement. And it's so easy to just ask Claude to make one for you, why even bother standardizing anything when you can just use bespok
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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
Yeah. I love programming. I even love the business side where you solve real problems for people. What I don't love is the constant pressure to just deliver faster and faster. So forcing these chatbots on us fill a need for the CEOs
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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
When stuff was getting too complicated, I looked for ways to make things simpler. Developers have spent decades trying to figure out ways to make things simpler, less code the better, only to throw it all out the window because chatbot go b
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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
Nothing wrong with getting a robot plumber, I would do it too. But I wouldn't go around doing all my friend's plumbing and/or completely redo all of the plumbing in my home with it and then call myself a plumber (notwithst
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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
If it means anything, I always make sure to send in a report when it crashes. I use Opensuse tumbleweed and update compulsively so I should have the newest package versions with all of the latest fixes too.
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10mo ago
Editing text files (code), executing simple programs in the terminal (work is done on my Mac Studio, not my personal desktop), browsing the web with Firefox and playing the odd Steam game. I use the stock Opensuse Tumbleweed panel setup an
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10mo ago
lmao ok I love this just for comedy
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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
KDE has come a long way but I still find it just too buggy to be usable as a daily driver…which is unfortunate because I don’t really like Gnome either but it’s the least worst of all the real options at the moment. Plasma will crash on me
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10mo ago
So if you don't like plumbing, don't get a robot to do your plumbing and then claim you're a "vibe plumber".
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10mo ago
I just did it today with the current ISO you can download from Microsoft themselves. Then installed all the Windows updates, graphics drivers and even enrolled in the free extended security support. Then I just uninstalled Cortana and Cop
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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
This is all so crazy to me. I went to school long before LLMs were even a Google Engineer's brianfart for the transformer paper and the way I took exams was already AI proof. Everything hand written in pen in a proctored gymnasium. No
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10mo ago
If my json is too complicated to be readable I just use jq to find the things I want out of it.
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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
Linters shouldn’t format code.
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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
"get a job doing something you enjoy and you'll never work a day in your life" or something like that
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lifetimerubyist
10mo ago
Until you realize you're just begging and coaxing a human to better beg and coax a machine to output working code - when you could just beg and coax the machine yourself.
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10mo ago
Hear hear. I didn't spend half my life getting an education, competing in the corporate crab bucket, retraining and upskilling just to turn into a robot babysitter.
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10mo ago
I knew a guy whose main editor for his day to day was Notepad++ running in Wine.