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Programming Still Sucks

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Re: Programming Still Sucks

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Post by jdw64 »

This is absurdly well written.

I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful and funny.

Once again, the programming industry has robbed literature of a potential Nobel Prize candidate.

Re: Programming Still Sucks

#3

Post by jeromechoo »

jdw64 wrote: post #2

This is absurdly well written. I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful and funny. Once again, the programming industry has robbed literature of a potential Nobel Prize candidate.

> You knew. And you signed off anyway. Because the alternative was losing the job, and the job was the mortgage, and the school fees, and the visa, and the version of yourself who'd fix it later once things stabilized.

I felt the pang in my bones reading this. All of us peons are just wading through this brave new world trying to do what we know is right but ultimately having no choice but to give in to life's needs.

Re: Programming Still Sucks

#4

Post by jdw64 »

jeromechoo wrote: post #3
jdw64 wrote: post #2

This is absurdly well written. I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful and funny. Once again, the programming industry has robbed literature of a potential Nobel Prize candidate.

> You knew. And you signed off anyway. Because the alternative was losing the job, and the job was the mortgage, and the school fees, and the visa, and the version of yourself who'd fix it later once things stabilized. I felt the pang in my bones reading this. All of us peons are just wading through this brave new world trying to do what we know is right but ultimately having no choice but to give in to life's needs.

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Re: Programming Still Sucks

#5

Post by pona-a »

jdw64 wrote: post #2

This is absurdly well written. I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful and funny. Once again, the programming industry has robbed literature of a potential Nobel Prize candidate.

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Re: Programming Still Sucks

#6

Post by jdw64 »

pona-a wrote: post #5
jdw64 wrote: post #2

This is absurdly well written. I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful and funny. Once again, the programming industry has robbed literature of a potential Nobel Prize candidate.

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You may be right. But this feeling is mine. Haha.

Re: Programming Still Sucks

#7

Post by tyg13 »

pona-a wrote: post #5
jdw64 wrote: post #2

This is absurdly well written. I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful and funny. Once again, the programming industry has robbed literature of a potential Nobel Prize candidate.

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26% AI generated? What does that even mean? How is Pangram arriving at that figure?

Re: Programming Still Sucks

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Post by idle_zealot »

pona-a wrote: post #5
jdw64 wrote: post #2

This is absurdly well written. I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful and funny. Once again, the programming industry has robbed literature of a potential Nobel Prize candidate.

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Can we not pretend that AI can meaningfully classify whether something was written by AI?
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