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The text reads suspiciously like AI too. I don't X -- I Y. Short paragraphs, lots of em-dashes.
i was always curious how these em dashes were written? like in my keyboard i dont see the symbol, is there any shortcut?
> I would never have written my own sorting algorithm to sort a list in the past.
> I would instead rely on abstractions left for me by those with more experience.
Further, those abstractions that you just threw away to roll your own encryption were written by actually talented people who actually took the time to think about their implementation before shitting it out into the world. The implementations you'll find in libaries will be superior in every way to the trash your LLM will pump out.
So, TL;DR: congratulations, you've just announced to the world that you're proud that you're a bad coder and that the software you're being paid to produce is getting worse.
Totally unrelated video I watched recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF90rstZQ
(for those with the kind of attention span that causes them to use LLMs, maybe just skip ahead to the "this is what you sound like" section, circa 17 mins)
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i was always curious how these em dashes were written? like in my keyboard i dont see the symbol, is there any shortcut?
On macOS, option plus hyphen gives an em-dash. Also if you're on macOS you should try some other keyboard keys too with option.
> I would never have written my own sorting algorithm to sort a list in the past. I would instead rely on abstractions left for me by those with more experience. And by doing so, never gain experience of your own. It is a truly alien mindset to me to take pride in never understanding what code does , to be comfortable relying entirely on magic words provided to you by others. For me, the simple existence of a bug in…
Why do you sound so petty? Do you understand every single layer of the stack below you? Do you understand how your code gets translated down to C, assembly, machine code? How all that becomes electrical signals on a PCB? How the material properties work at the physical level and how its manufactured? Because if you don't, aren't you, myself and basically everyone relying on the 'magic' words of others? If you're tryi…
False comparison. Nice try, though
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Why do you sound so petty? Do you understand every single layer of the stack below you? Do you understand how your code gets translated down to C, assembly, machine code? How all that becomes electrical signals on a PCB? How the material properties work at the physical level and how its manufactured? Because if you don't, aren't you, myself and basically everyone relying on the 'magic' words of others? If you're tryi…
> Do you understand how your code gets translated down to C, assembly, machine code? yes, actually, and thats why i can debug and fix shit most people cant (and why i get paid what i get paid) > How all that becomes electrical signals on a PCB? How the material properties work at the physical level and how its manufactured? this is a non-sequitur imo, but you should def be aware of material properties and limitations…
I don’t understand the kind of mentality that takes to put out genuine slop like this. Use the LLM or the agents or the fancy way to call a markdown file a skill to do your job; but stop pretending that it makes you in any way exceptional. The whole post says nothing, seems AI generated itself and on top of that, adds nothing of value - simply exists to increase the entropy in the world.
I, on the other hand strongly resonate with this post. I am not a programmer by profession, but a programmer by need - I write tools to get stuff done, and this is exactly the missing link. I am able to craft algorithms, architectures and focus on the UI, and llms (mostly Claude) allow me to write the low-level that needs to be written that I inspect. What used to take days takes hours and allows us to solve issue we…
Yep - there it is
Brb, just rolled my eyes so hard that I'm now staring at my own visual cortex
I wrote something very similar back in October! The "sculpting" metaphor really stuck for me. https://patrickerichsen.com/chiseling
It tracks for vibe coders.
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There was a snarky comment earlier saying, try implementing something that's too hard for you, THEN try going back to writing code by hand - implying agents are indispensable. And I thought to myself that the most memorable parts of my career, the most rewarding parts, were when I took some task that was too hard for me, then, with great effort, became a developer for whom that task was no longer too hard for me.
All the times I told someone I could do something I didn't know how to do but believed was possible then had to figure it out filled me with existential dread. There was a good feeling after I succeeded, but I get a good feeling from just building something big and functional with AI, as long as I feel like I was the driving force behind the ideas in the thing, so maybe I don't need the stress?