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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/inthehands/statuses/113642048565618579">Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 06:47:29 JST</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands" title="inthehands@hachyderm.io"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/53259-48-20231130154634.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Paul Cantrell" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Paul Cantrell</a><div><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113642012149966063" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>Yes, this from <a href="https://mas.to/@sethrichards">@sethrichards</a> is what I’m talking about:<br><a href="https://mas.to/@sethrichards/113642032055823958" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mas.to/@sethrichards/113642032055823958</a></p><p>I had a great moment with a student the other day dealing with some broken code. The proximate problem was a Java NullPointerException. The proximate solution was “that ivar isn’t initialized yet.”</p><p>BUT…</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4174783#notice-8159332">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-13T06:47:29+09:00" title="Friday, 13-Dec-2024 06:47:29 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113642048565618579" rel="external" title="Sent from hachyderm.io via ActivityPub">hachyderm.io</a></span></span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113642048565618579">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://mas.to/@sethrichards/113642032055823958I">Seth Richards (@sethrichards@mas.to)</a></h5><div> from <span>Seth Richards</span></div></header><div>@inthehands@hachyderm.io I agree with all of this, and I'd add: When I'm writing code, I'm *learning* about the problem as well through the process. When I fix a bug in my code, I (hopefully) learn not to make the same mistake again. When I help someone on the team fix a bug in their code, we both learn something. If we write documentation or a unit test to make sure the bug doesn't happen again, the organization "learns" something too.It's unclear to me whether AI is even capable of learning in this way.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 06:47:29 JSTPaul Cantrell
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Yes, this from @sethrichards is what I’m talking about:
https://mas.to/@sethrichards/113642032055823958
I had a great moment with a student the other day dealing with some broken code. The proximate problem was a Java NullPointerException. The proximate solution was “that ivar isn’t initialized yet.”
BUT…
In conversationabout a month ago from hachyderm.iopermalink
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  @inthehands@hachyderm.io I agree with all of this, and I'd add: When I'm writing code, I'm *learning* about the problem as well through the process. When I fix a bug in my code, I (hopefully) learn not to make the same mistake again. When I help someone on the team fix a bug in their code, we both learn something. If we write documentation or a unit test to make sure the bug doesn't happen again, the organization "learns" something too. It's unclear to me whether AI is even capable of learning in this way.

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