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do you not test your code?

yep and JBlow is a massive gatekeeper who discourages people from learning programming if he doesn't believe they can program the way he thinks a programmer should. He is absolutel…

WFH debuffs/nerfs an extrovert's primary weapon attribute (soft skills). this gives an implicit visibility bonus to introverts.

extroverts are not going to win this war

finding complex solutions to complex problems is easy. finding simple solutions is whats hard.

telling someone the path to happiness is through marriage and kids is probably the dumbest advice imaginable. its basically a coin flip on whether or not it ruins your life and the…

what's the niche? the authors described it as general-purpose

you seem to think "gpt4 is the best learning tool" means "gpt4 is the only tool that should be used in education". i literally said in my original reply that it should be used with…

its not absurd at all. if i want to learn what an atom is, why on earth would i open a book when i can just have a hour long conversation with an AI that can explain the concepts t…

no one made the claim that gpt4 is the only tool that should be used

ive accepted that most people will never understand this

if i had this when i was in school im certain i would have been an A student. my biggest hangup has always been fear of looking dumb, asking dumb questions, holding up the class to…

gpt4 needs better marketing. its not perfect but its without a doubt the best learning tool humans have achieved. its better than books, wikipedia, libraries, etc. its basically yo…

why would you not use the best model because of their internal drama?

depends on how far into the weeds you get and the model you're using. gpt4 is pretty reliable at explaining concepts at a high level and its better at it than any textbook or wiki …

i tried Goland (the Jetbrains IDE for Go) and when my mouse hovers over a variable the IDE does not provide a tool tip that tells me what its type is. And for that reason I've stuc…

due to lack of pay, resources, and support our public education system is filled with the bottom of the barrel teachers

A senior engineer should work in an organization that actually enables this type of engineering

CTRL + F the word passion in this thread

i agree, and its important that we understand what the tools were designed to do before we use them