It’s good to be averse to cruelty, yeah. Don’t let anyone tell you that you should try to lose that part of yourself.

When I think of what I want to happen to people who have done terrible things, I think the most satisfying thing to imagine is a future in which they are denied ever having any power over others. Not a future in which they’re tortured or suffering or anything like that.

Chilaquiles

I’m of two minds about this.

On the one hand, getting to know your coworkers personally outside of work is really important for organizing, and also (speaking from experience) very fulfilling (provided your coworkers aren’t all just total assholes)

On the other hand, it’s too bad alcohol culture is so entertwined with this, and I say this as an unrepentant booze hobbyist. Hopefully we can collectively find an after work and/or lunchtime social culture that allows space for people who don’t partake in alcohol

HAM

Yeah, I’d say that’s a taco

Hmm, I should check on my peanut butter

I’m glad you’ve gotten some actual use out of the LLMs! My outlook is more skeptical because I’ve seen too many interns get stuck on projects because they tried to ask LLMs for advice (which they did not double check) instead of reaching out to an experienced dev. The word calculators can only do so much.

In case my edit didn’t land in time: what makes the AI approach better than using existing non-AI static analysis tools

Become “pretty close to an expert” by… outsourcing the process of improving your code to a machine…

Even if it improves your code in that scenario, you’re not going to really understand what it’s doing or why. You can use AI as a shortcut for scripting, but you can’t use it as a shortcut for learning

Edit: Besides, we already have perfectly good static analysis tools. Just use a linter. Trying to use AI as a linter will just be worse and unpredictable compared to using an actual linter

political priors

Rationalism brainworm spotted!

immortality

so you can pet cats

If anyone wants proof, I’m perfectly willing to DM some Blue Origin stuff that shouldn’t be public

I don’t suggest doing this. It’s not like we’d even be able to confirm whether it’s legit or not.