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The best artist I talked to in-person still uses Photoshop CS6. (And a Wacom without a display).
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Did your AI post this comment? It seems to be getting downvoted so I'm wondering if the productivity is positive in this case or negative? The same happens with AI clearing your backlog
Nah the AI would have used proper grammar.
...unless they are instructed to use poor grammar.
Actually I'm surprised they do use good grammar given how much poor grammar would be in their datasets. But that's probably why they don't just blindly train these things on internet comments.
There's an "expert trap" in here I think, at least this is something I experience. When you are good at something, it's a lot less effort to draw on that stuff, and you usually get instant easy positive feedback from non-experts. So, for an engineer, that's code and tools and the like, but also productivity systems and other abstract thinking modes that are useful in programming. On the flipside, actually thinking ab…
Then again, the question is, if the simple action needs to be changed, how hard will that be?
Not entirely what's the point of the article is, because with AI I can clear my backlogs way faster than without it. How is this *not* real productivity gain?
This is so important. I've seen so many fellow technologists (and I've skated this myself) obsess about their setup to the point that they're spending more time on that than the actual thing they're building. The whole "90% of my time as a coder is spent typing, so I should optimise my ability to type fast" is so, well, wrong. 90% of our time should be spent thinking, and most of that reading.
There's a bubble where VC backed companies are not producing anything that people are really using or paying for. So to justify their valuation they instead try to show just how productive they are. Surely if they are this busy and productive they must be worth something? (This could also explain the hype around AI which is all about "productivity/how" and nothing about "what") This article compares these kinds of co…
I do agree with the author, in spirit. Not necessarily the possible implication that winning hackathons requires you to not have OPPD (obsessive productivity personality disorder) :) I mean the "possible" indication that you have to be a non-productivity-chasing savant to be a great coder/etc. I stopped at this line > he was responsible for shipping Facebook Groups and wondered how can this be a compliment in any sha…
I think it's a false dichotomy. A good craftsman cares deeply about their tools. But the tools are a means to an end, not a toy. I have a bunch of small productivity tools I made to match my workflows: tiny shell scripts and functions, custom Emacs functions and settings, small tools to control windows placement, etc. Cumulatively I spent many days building and adjusting it. But when I need to jump into a task, thing…
I think you forgot to explain the false dichotomy part.