Programmers Aren't People

Post by msla » Sun, Jun 07, 2026, 1:27 PM UTC

framel wrote: post #12

msla wrote: post #10

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> amazing how you understood nothing from any of my words, how about using the clanker to vibe your understanding too? "Coding is a pseudoscience" makes sense like "plumbing is a pseudoscience" makes sense: Fluid dynamics might be a pseudoscience, but plumbing either works or it doesn't, and it's either maintainable and modifiable or it isn't. Computer Science is what you're groping for, in your speech laden with thi…

I get the impression you haven’t quite grasped what separates applied science from theoretical science.

Post by elliotbnvl » Sun, Jun 07, 2026, 1:28 PM UTC

esailija wrote: post #13

> Lately I watch the machine do in a minute the thing I could have billed a morning for Just raw code output is not really what anyone is paid for There already existed billions of lines of code doing every possible thing imaginable that software is capable of doing and you could use all of it free of charge with the authors bending over backwards to make it as easy as possible for you to utilize. Code that nobody un…

Post by framel » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 7:57 PM UTC

antonvs wrote: post #24

framel wrote: post #14

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Very deepity?!? You lack basic grammar skills, yet here you are lecturing me about how mathematical notation is just syntactic sugar over natural language. That’s exactly the point: we already have a construct for telling computers what to do. We don’t need to use something subpar to express our intent.

> You lack basic grammar skills You lack basic knowledge of the field you're ineptly trying to criticize. "Deepity" was coined by the Harvard philosophy professor Daniel Dennett, and was specifically intended to address the sort of empty nonsense you were spewing in your previous comment. Take this as a shot across the bow and go study before you continue vomiting your uninformed opinions everywhere.