I will admit—these are kneejerk reactions,
but they're honestly my reactions to reading the following statements.
I know,
I know,
hanging onions off our belt is long out of style.
And get off my lawn!
Anyway … statment the first:
Think jq, but without having to ask an LLM to write the query for you.
Via Lobsters,
A float walks into a gradual type system
So … using jq is so hard you need to use a tool that will confabulate ¼ of the time in order to construct a simple query?
Is that what you are saying?
That you can't be bothered to use your brain?
Just accept the garbage spewed forth by a probabilistic text slinger?
Really?
And did you use an LLM to help write the code?
If not,
why not?
Sigh.
And statement the second:
… and most importantly, coding can be social and fun again.
Via Lobsters,
introducing tangled
If I had known that programming would become a team sport,
I,
an introvert,
would have choosen a different career.
Does XXXXXXX everything have to be social?
Why can't it just be fun?
I need to be micromanaged as well?
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