Mr. Satan

When Microsoft announced the sunset of Windows 10.

I was still in uni at that time. Started with Ubuntu, disliked snaps and moved to Pop. Stayed there for last 5-ish (?) years. It does what I want it to do, I don’t care about switching distros now.

TIL: devdocs.io, thx!

Here I am just thinking I’m a better programmer without AI (LLMs).

For me it’s just glorified autocomplete. I haven’t tried it in any real capacity, but my colleagues did and I’ve seen some examples. It’s all basic shit I already know. In no way I felt compelled or even seen anything really useful. It can give you a head start, but I already have the knowledge to have a head start.

Some colleagues are using it for SQL, because they’re unfamiliar with it, and I’m like, it’s all good if it works for you, but you’re not gonna learn properly if you don’t try to write stuff yourself.

This touches on another point I don’t see too often — I code because I like solving problems. If I outsource that, then what’s the point? And it’s exactly this that makes me a competent, and dare I say, good programmer.
Another issue for me is this chat bot format. I don’t what a chat bot! If I have to go out of my way to try and coerce a fucking chat bot into being a useful tool then it already lost its usefulness. The only acceptable format for AI coding is better autocomplete, i. e. ability to autofill boilerplate more, better and, most importantly, as seamlessly as current solutions in modern IDEs.

In general I don’t feel threatened by AI and when the tools catch up I’ll gladly use them or even retire and code just for fun.

I just need to compose my will to get up. Then it’s coffee brewing ritual.