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0 pointsminingape1y ago0 comments

> You can do most of the things the author showed with your craftfully set-up IDE and magic tricks, but that's not the point.

Wrong you can do most of the things the author showed with a fresh install of vim/emacs or by logging in to a fresh install of vscode/intellij - In other words no lifetime was spent on this, I like having as bare an experience as possible so I can use the same setup on any computer.

> I don't want to spend a lifetime setting up these things only to break when moving to another language.

Editor configs don't break across languages?

> For the chat and editing, I've gotten a pretty good sense as to when I can expect the model to give me a correct completion (all required info in context or something relatively generic). For everything else I will just sit down and do it myself, because I can always _choose_ to do so. Just use it for when it suits you and don't for when it doesn't. That's it.

A lot of people don't have this level of wisdom or the skills to pick and continue without AI. Would I be wrong for assuming you've been programming for at least 10 years? I don't think AI is bad for a senior who has already earned their scars, but for a junior/no skill developer it stunts their growth simply because the do expect the model to give them a correct completion, and the thought/action of doing it without an AI is painful (because they lack the requisite skills) so they avoid it.

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2341209876541y ago

> Wrong you can do most of the things the author showed with a fresh install of vim/emacs or by logging in to a fresh install of vscode/intellij - In other words no lifetime was spent on this, I like having as bare an experience as possible so I can use the same setup on any computer.

Sure, though, for example, I haven't a clue for the shortcut for wrapping an expression in a try/catch block. With Cursor I just press tab and it often also adds a useful print or other useful expression inside the catch block. It comes down to requiring less discoverability.

> A lot of people don't have this level of wisdom or the skills to pick and continue without AI.

I have been coding for some time, but I think you underestimate people's BS detector. People are well aware that language models hallucinate. Most of the time you'll figure it out soon enough (compiler/run time) and adapt accordingly. I have learned much of my coding through reading public repositories/code which were also not always up to standards. You figure this out by banging your head once or twice.

miningapeOP1y ago

> You figure this out by banging your head once or twice.

Amen to that. People really underestimate the power of brain damage in this field.

ilc1y ago

Naw, I've seen enough hiring fads ;).

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