Nice Gilligan’s Island analysis, now I’m questioning the Professor’s motives.
I’m an early millennial, too, with boomer parents. Old TV is good IMO (‘and loving it!’).
I grew up on similar shows. TNG was my first Star Trek. I did eventually watch all of TOS when Hulu first emerged as a free online streaming service. My favorite is City on the Edge of Forever.
Everytime I read ‘boomer’ on social media it reminds me of that old Star Trek episode (Miri, TOS, 1966) where the children refer to the adults as ‘grups’ because they’ve lost the knowledge of the original term ‘grown up’.
“This is the first I’m hearing of it.”
“No Kings” - Sounds like a clear goal to me. Excuse me now while I get ready 🇺🇸
Ironically, GenAI had such a time with hands. What a better symbol to represent authenticity.
I’ve seen a lot of comparisons likening LLM code generation to how compilers and high level languages eventually removed the need for programmers to understand machine code. Arguments about determinism and code quality aside, I still think it’s a false equivalence. Even if LLMs produced beautiful, ideal code, they fundamentally remove a programmer’s understanding of what exactly is present in the logic. Mishaps are inevitable.
To prevent them, experienced programmers will do what it takes to produce human understanding and quality in spite of code generation. Yes, read the generated code. Yes, do code reviews with trusted peers. Yes, write/generate unit tests. There are even novel ideas about having LLMs interview us to make sure we understand the generated code’s purpose. That’s not the same as compilers, and it’s not the story AI companies have told us.
Just like in the beginning: Programming languages are made for programmers, not for machines. It’s on us to understand.
Let me explain, no there is too much, let me sum up: It’s a famous line from The Princess Bride.
Good luck with Iocaine
Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added.
Do they have the option to reject changes they’re not professionally comfortable with?
The mental gymnastics with which they support the pdfile is down right Acrobatic.
“Asking one’s chat bot” sounds so much less impressive than “leveraging AI”. Using the right language throws some cold water on the corporate narrative.
Pay the debt or be an expert novice, master of nothing.
Who doesn’t enjoy spam clicking to their birth year one month at a time?
The Force is strong with this one.
That much steel is worth a good bit.
A hallmark of this era. Why please those you serve when you can instead infuriate them with a fraction of the effort and still turn a profit?
The Arch Linux link mentioned by SomethingBoring in another comment details needed set up for BD+ copy protection and AACS libraries. Once these are set up, Handbrake and VLC will read from disc properly.
Obviously, it’s nice to be a centaur, and it’s horrible to be a reverse centaur. There are lots of AI tools that are potentially very centaur-like, but my thesis is that these tools are created and funded for the express purpose of creating reverse-centaurs, which is something none of us want to be.
Insightful piece, and though long, is worth a read from top to bottom.
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI JANET
Still laughing.
Vimmer here, this one’s right: I’ve been stuck since 2003.