No, but i really would like a chrome extension to block out all the people complaining about AI on every site.
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No, not really.
The power button on the galaxy was previously a bixby button. They just changed the assistant that gets called uppon.
AI Suggestions in search engines are sometimes practical and you can always choose to ignore them.
AI is only a net loss for humans that use it instead of thinking. Used well its an incredible tool.
Same goes to ownership offloading. Our company heavily encourages AI use, but the work you create with it is your responsibility. So if you dont check it, you are the one to blame.
The energy consumption is really a thing that needs to be talked about, but its not that bad as its often stated. We already use buttloads of energy to stream movies, stream games, do stupid crypto stuff and the amount of bad mouthing AI gets for its energy consumption is just not proportional. If i run a local LLM on my GPU i am a forest killer, but using the same GPU to run a heavy game is ok?
I wonder how long until we see a product that's able to record workstation displays and provide a conversational analysis of work conducted that day by all of your employees.
Thanks god i live in the EU and not in a late stage capitalist hell hole XD
> I don't like being sucked back into the Microsoft ecosystem
You’re not though, there’s no lock-in.
but there is.
VSCode core may be open source, but the plugin marketplace certainly isn't.
So if you for example use VSCodium, you don't have access to the plugin marketplace and eather have to use an alternative or manage your plugins completely manually on the filesystem.
This. As someone now in their 30s who didn't learn to code until their 20s, I've tried several times with vim/emacs but it just isn't worth the hassle because I just don't have the free time anymore to endlessly fuck about with config files and learning the ins and outs of each program. So many of the absolute best seem to use one of vim/emacs but then so many of the absolute best started coding when they were children or teenagers with time on their side. It would be a lot easier if they could develop some kind of easy way to switch between these pre made configs but last time I tried chemacs and cheovim I couldn't get them to work as expected. I think emacs has built this feature or something similar into the release coming out soon so I might give it another go in a year or two but I dunno.
hmm.. but you also spent a lot of time to learn programming. Why not invest some time in the use of professional tools?
If you master an editor like vim, you'll never need to spend time to learn additional IDEs. In the past i needed to learn VSCode, Eclipse, IntelliJ, XCode, Visual Studio and some other niche IDEs. All have very different menu structures and keybinds. Just to unify that was worth the time learning vim.
on the other hand, using vim mode in vscode let you use vim where it shines: modal editing. It's the best of both worlds.
not really..
vim is easy to extend and adapt.
You loose that with only vim mode in vscode.
You also loose the ecosystem and relevant core functionality like most vim core functionality like :grep :vim :make, quickfix list, arglist etc..
I've been using vim for years, switched to neovim, and at this point I'm ready to throw in the towel and just use vscode for anything beyond simple text editing.
The amount of work needed to get a basic IDE up and running for your languages of choice, even for commonly used languages such as Python or Javascript, is far too much for someone who wants to get on with their day job or hobby coding and doesn't want to spend precious hours fixing obscure issues in Lua.
Furthermore, the community does not have a good culture of documentation and learning: too many plugins have very sparse docs, and other online resources such as the Neovim subreddit are hostile to newcomers with "RTFM" a common answer. The community is also fragmented, with too many ways to do the same thing in the name of some platonic ideal of personal freedom over practicality.
A simple question like "How do I set up Black with neovim to format my Python files on save?" will yield a dozen answers, each one with someone's favourite plugin. Setting up that plugin will require another plugin, and so on until you end up with a Jenga tower of dependencies that doesn't quite work the way you want, but is too fragile and time-consuming to tweak correctly.
In the meantime, I can just Ctrl+P and install what I need in vscode and be on my way in a few minutes.
I don't particularly like vscode. It's heavy and slow and janky, particularly on older laptops. I don't like being sucked back into the Microsoft ecosystem after spending years getting away from it. But ultimately, I want to just get on with my job, and my job is not Lua Developer or Neovim Plugin Expert.
I dont know..
The argument i read all the time is "i don't want to invest time in vim".
But what kind of professional spends hours uppon hours learning his craft (programming), but is unwilling to invest some of those hours into mastering professional tools?
What about sharpening the axe? The amount of time i saved by sticking to vim is definitly more that the time i needed to learn it..
IDEs are easy mode and waste of resources.
Its ok to start with them as a noob, but down the line i want to customize every part of my toolchain. (And thats just horrible to do in VSCode etc..)
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not just the children :D
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I both strongly agree (“content is a plague”) and strongly disagree (artisans, even digital ones, make society better).
I’m glad that we’ll hopefully see the end of content as an industry, where people churn out text and images and posts trying to monetize attention by the penny. It’s inevitable as content becomes effectively free. How long before TikTok makes AI generated videos without creators? I’m pretty sure medium can be replaced in entirety today.
That said, there’s plenty of people who work hard and are immensely talented and contribute a lot to society. Technology and automation has slowly taken away many jobs that brought people satisfaction and we’re anything but BS jobs. My classic example is musicians. It’s something people love to be, but in a world with recorded audio, you don’t need as many musicians as you once needed (and it was actually a fairly common job).
I don’t have the answers, but I hope that automation can start replacing BS jobs through AI.
It’s something people love to be, but in a world with recorded audio, you don’t need as many musicians as you once needed (and it was actually a fairly common job).
> Well, and because people love it, many will still be passionate musicians / writers / language savants.
They just won't make a living out of it.
And thats ok. The intrinsic motivation to do those things is recreational and the focus on monetization contributed to the "content is plague" trend in the first place.
The only reason real reasons you would want to use Clojure over Python are if you need to work/leverage the Java ecosystem (don't want to use Java/Kotlin) and you want a real multithreaded runtime (no GIL).
or when you want immutablity and a functional programming style.
or if you prefer manipulating lisp ast instead of wrestling indentation.
or if you need somewhat decent performance,
or if you need somewhat decent multithreading,
etc etc..