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   Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 23:52:34 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️
   @thomasfuchs There is one silver bullet.
   
   If there is no code, there are no code bugs.
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     ilias :thepiratebay: (dm_ronin@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:02:23 JST ilias :thepiratebay:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs to add from personal experience:

     Using mutexes won't magically make race conditions disappear

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     Jason (jf@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:06:38 JST Jason

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Seen so much hype recently but I still legitimately cannot figure out why anyone would use an LLM for programming. How does that help anything? Are people just slow typists, or they have problems remembering the syntax?

     It takes months to train skilled programmers on a complex domain. Supposedly an LLM can "understand" an entire problem domain with just a short prompt? It's all gibberish to me.

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     llewelly (llewelly@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:07:42 JST llewelly

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     the first book I got that was mainly about software development but not about how to code in a specific language was Fred Brooks' book _The Mythical Man-Month_ , a 1990s edition, with his famous _No Silver Bullet_ essay, and other later essays tacked on. Some good insights about software development, but, sadly, told through a very conservative, patriarchal lens, even from my viewpoint as a white cis guy from a very conservative part of the USA.

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     New Haven Computer Club (jimmy_jim_james_nhcc@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:25:10 JST New Haven Computer Club

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     • Jason

     @thomasfuchs @jf

     You only write that today because you have been programing with AI for days.

     In weeks not years most tech people are going to have developed a new skill set.

     Programing with English.

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     Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 04:47:55 JST Allan Chow

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs @tk no humans no problems.

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