Readit NewsIf someone told me that their Tesla's autopilot swerved them into a brick wall and they nearly died, I'm not going to say, "your newfound luddite bias is preventing you from seeking sensible middle ground. Surely there is no serious issue here." I'm going to say, "wow, that's fucked up. Maybe there's something deeply wrong with Tesla autopilot."
What a horrible metaphor for a tool that can translate pdfs to text. lol. The anti-AI arguments are just as, if not more, absurd than the "AI can do everything" arguments.
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So what good are these tools? Do they have any value whatsoever?
Objectively, it would seem the answer is no.
What about 20 minuets ago when I threw a 20-line Typescript error in and it explained it in English to me? What definition of "objective" would that fall under?
Or get this, I'm building off of an existing state machine library and asked it to find any potential performance issues and guess what? It actually did. What universe do you live in where that doesn't have objective value?
Am I going to need to just start sharing my Claude chat history to prove to people who live under a rock that a super-advanced pattern matcher that can compose results can be useful???
Go ahead, ask it to write some regex and then tell me how "objectively" useless it is?
> Objectively, it would seem the answer is no. But at least they make a lot of money, right?
Wait, what? Does the author know what the word "objectively" means?
I'd kill for someone to tell me how feeding a pdf into Claude and asking it to provide a print-friendly version for a templating language has "objectively" no value?
What about yesterday when I asked Claude to look write some reflection-heavy code for me to traverse a bunch of classes and register them in DI?
Or the hundreds (maybe thousands) of times I've thrown a TS error and it explained it in English to me?
I'm so over devs thinking they can categorically tell everyone else what is and isn't helpful in a field as big as this.
Also, and this really, really needs repeated: When you say "AI" and don't specify exactly what you mean you sound like a moron. "AI", that insanely general phrase, happens to cover a wide, wide array of different things you personally use day to day. Anytime you do speech-to-text you're relying on "AI".
Almost all the tools I've seen are either fully event-sourced or have nothing to do with event-sourcing. There aren't a ton of in-betweens.
Writing raw SQL views/queries per MVC view in SSR arrangements is one of the most elegant and performant ways to build complex web products. Let the RDBMS do the heavy lifting with the data. There are optimizations in play you can't even recall (because there's so many) if you're using something old and enterprisey like MSSQL or Oracle. The web server should be able to directly interpolate sql result sets into corresponding <table>s, etc. without having to round trip for each row or perform additional in memory join operations.
The typical ORM implementation is the exact opposite of this - one strict object model that must be used everywhere. It's about as inflexible as you can get.
I can't respond to the "typical" part as most of my experience is using EF Core, but it's far from inflexible.
Most of my read-heavy, search queries are views I've hand written that integrate with EF core. This allows me to get the benefit of raw SQL, but also be able to use LINQ to do sorting/paging/filtering.
taking bribes (planes) from foreign countries: I offer in exchange, a former President who dared to use Dijon mustard instead of plain yellow mustard, the monster.
https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/have-there-been-significant...
It's not crypto. It will 100% be around for the foreseeable future. Maybe not in the form it currently exists and maybe not even at the scale it currently exists, but it's here to stay.
As developers, we're just as biased as the CEO at the top trying to hawk this stuff but in the opposite manner.