Readit NewsGod no. Stop the copy pasta disease! It's horrible, mindless programming.
When reviewing code, I'm astonished anything was accomplished by copy pasting so much old code (complete with bugs and comment typos).
Incidentally, OOP encourages you to copy a lot. It's just an engine for generating code bloat. Want to serialize some objects? Here's your Object serializer and your overloaded Car serialize and your overloaded Boat serializer, with only a few different fields to justify the difference!
OOP is bad. Copy pasta is bad. DRY is good. All hail DRY, forever, at any cost.
This only works very rarely, and I don’t think that it can work today anywhere. When my favourite subreddit had 5000 subscribers in 2014-2015, it worked. There were meaningful conversations, because every active people knew everybody else, and nobody was asshole with each other. Nowadays, I can’t find such communities, and of course the same subreddit now with 400000 subscribers is a terrible place. Even smaller ones behave like these larger ones now. People who want to achieve something, or simple assholes find these places too quickly, if it’s open in any way. I’ve also met people who behaved in real life like during a stupid political argument on an anonymous forum. That slowly becomes the norm for too many. Btw, game theory indicates that this should happen when most of your communication is with strangers.
Also politics, and state of the society in my original country definitely made people in Hungary more asshole. The society, how people behaved there 20 years ago, basically collapsed there to a depressive and anxious state (“conservatives”/alt-right/“classical liberalists” hurray!). This can be applied to most of the countries, but if you are lucky, just not that extreme way. That also doesn’t help to find any kind of community where there are no toxic people.
Sure, in some ways it brought people together. But I think the net result is worse and has divided people and the world, and monetized relationships.
I wish we would collectively realize this, and just abandon these apps, and go back to real life connections.
But it’s too late for that, I’m afraid. The world is already addicted.
I will say that I find discord to be a breath of fresh air, but I haven’t really found a true community there, more like disparate groups of people who share common interests but rarely first names. The internet today is either terrifyingly closely related to your first and last name or a hall of mirrors hidden behind myriad layers of post-irony. The veil has been shattered: either you sign up for “real” talk with people you will never know or settle for a blanched façade of communication with real-world acquaintances who refuse to really show themselves for fear of what that might mean.
I can see how an applicant who cheats interview with chatbot would later not bother to internalize operation instructions for the job.
My experience with Chat GPT ranges from “it’s really good for rapidly getting a bearing with a certain topic” to “it’s a woeful substitute for independently developing a nuanced understanding of a given topic.” It tends to do an OK with programming and a very poor job with critical theory.
- 25% is not enough to matter if you drop from 130k US engineer to a 40-50k outsourced
- International corporation will easily side step that since the US Corp is not paying for salaries to the foreign Corp, just dues to exploit the IP at best
So at best this would be hurtful to smaller businesses like the stupid section 174.