CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@eniko without the business and marketing it’s just doing an expensive hobby

@eniko it’s unpleasant so we get the executive assistant to do most of the leg work
(guess what their gender is)

@eniko these seem oddly gender coded

@eniko ah i found this

Just a moment...

(levelup.gitconnected.com)

@eniko taking a walk around the lake is generally considered an essential part of programming practice

@dragonfi @sabik @eniko right. it feels faster

@dragonfi @sabik @eniko well, there’s the thing that even if keyboard shortcuts does save time, it’s as we just established optimising the wrong thing; most of the time spent programming is reading and understanding code. None of these tools make that more efficient or faster

@dragonfi @sabik @eniko the sense i get is that some people really don’t want to accept that their perceptions of reality could possibly be inaccurate

@dragonfi @sabik @eniko the whole think kind of reminds me of this bit of UI research done in the 1980s, that whenever i talk about it here i get a whole bunch of people really mad at me:

keyboard shortcuts don’t save any actual time. But they do make it feel like you’re saving time.

this really upsets the vim people

@dragonfi @sabik @eniko i think it does have intent- the prompter’s intent; not any of its own. it seems to do best with problems that look kind of like translation. which is also its limitations; it can’t really do any work you didn’t already do. it can only transform it into a different “language”.

@eniko @dragonfi @sabik but further, understanding the code it produces takes just exactly as long as understanding any stranger’s code always has, and that debt needs to get paid sooner or later

@eniko @dragonfi @sabik it’s sort of working like a slot machine. It gets the answer right often enough to erase the time that passed while it gave wrong answers- people don’t realise it woulda been faster to just struggle through the problem themselves- that’s not as fun- therefore feels like it takes longer

@eniko @dragonfi @sabik I honestly think the AI is hacking time perception.

the divide is people who are having fun with it vs not

@eniko it feels like that moment after Wile E. Coyote just ran off a cliff and hasn’t looked down yet

just dragging on for months and months

@VeeRat allow me to introduce you to vim users

a new drug comes out that gives you effective immortality for as long as you take it. You don't age, you never grow frail, you stay sparky and young and enthusiastic for as long as you want.

but it also permanently freezes your emotional and intellectual age. You never learn anything, you never get better at relationships, you never grow as a person.

@punissuer i think i saw that one

what if you took the billions of dollars being spent on data centres and spent it on UBI instead

then you’s have a whole bunch of people suddenly with all this free time on their hands to make you pictures and answer your weird research questions

@ebel it’s not imposter syndrome if you’re actually an imposter.

@revoluciana i just feel like it’s the final word: do people go around asking gay people how great all that straight passing privilege was?