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@searls Time will tell, but I’ll play the optimist and wager the opposite: that the assistive boost from LLMs will help less-skilled programmers up-level much more quickly. In part, because it should force new programmers to gain the skill of *reading* code sooner than they otherwise might. (And: cargo-culters gonna cargo cult; a wrong answer copied thoughtlessly from ChatGPT and a wrong answer from StackOverflow feel roughly equivalent to me.)

@searls Time will tell, but I’ll play the optimist and wager the opposite: that the assistive boost from LLMs will help less-skilled programmers up-level much more quickly. In part, because it should force new programmers to gain the skill of *reading* code sooner than they otherwise might. (And: cargo-culters gonna cargo cult; a wrong answer copied thoughtlessly from ChatGPT and a wrong answer from StackOverflow feel roughly equivalent to me.)

@searls Time will tell, but I’ll play the optimist and wager the opposite: that the assistive boost from LLMs will help less-skilled programmers up-level much more quickly. In part, because it should force new programmers to gain the skill of *reading* code sooner than they otherwise might. (And: cargo-culters gonna cargo cult; a wrong answer copied thoughtlessly from ChatGPT and a wrong answer from StackOverflow feel roughly equivalent to me.)

@searls Time will tell, but I’ll play the optimist and wager the opposite: that the assistive boost from LLMs will help less-skilled programmers up-level much more quickly. In part, because it should force new programmers to gain the skill of *reading* code sooner than they otherwise might. (And: cargo-culters gonna cargo cult; a wrong answer copied thoughtlessly from ChatGPT and a wrong answer from StackOverflow feel roughly equivalent to me.)

@searls @tenderlove as someone who (a) has also largely escaped the requirement to build real systems and (b) is officially* old and cranky… i mostly want the sandwhich. expect my TS;R test framework soon

* credentials available upon request

@searls Justin.

@searls it's comically bad

@searls From day one it seemed to me to be a technology that offered more in the way of insight into Facebook’s peculiar organizational structure than it did into how most software should ship data from server to client most of the time.

@searls A Coke is a Coke and, apparently, a crummy UX is a crummy UX.

@searls Justin.

@searls that valley is extremely uncanny

@searls (Here in Seattle, there’s Carbon Robotics’ Laser Weeder. Computer vision ML + lots of fairly powerful lasers — no plucking required.)

@searls Time will tell, but I’ll play the optimist and wager the opposite: that the assistive boost from LLMs will help less-skilled programmers up-level much more quickly. In part, because it should force new programmers to gain the skill of *reading* code sooner than they otherwise might. (And: cargo-culters gonna cargo cult; a wrong answer copied thoughtlessly from ChatGPT and a wrong answer from StackOverflow feel roughly equivalent to me.)

@searls @tenderlove as someone who (a) has also largely escaped the requirement to build real systems and (b) is officially* old and cranky… i mostly want the sandwhich. expect my TS;R test framework soon

* credentials available upon request