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@jamie @davidcelis @annika To be fair, having your own Notion that is different in that one way you wanted forever and being able to change it for yourself is extremely intoxicating.

Let’s not forget how each of us copied their first piece of code from a book/journal/forum ran it and it worked. I remember that moment to this day. Right there I knew I’m hooked. When I started changing those small programs on my own and they worked… oof. I can be honest and say I’m addicted. To this day I’m chasing the zone and whet it hits just right that’s the stuff. Even when I’m burnt out I can’t put it down for long. I can be burned down on a job or a project but—so far—not programming.

So I get how it can be addictive.

@wwahammy @glyph idunno… Is it suspicious that in the list of examples there’s no writing?

Like, I can open Word and all the tools on display and I can mash keyboard to make it show some letter but can I write a story? One would think that LLMs would open up the whole realm of storytelling to noobs but we somehow still don’t like AI-generated books.

Anyway, discoverability in programming is very close to that in prose. A word processor could put buttons for basic grammatical constructions like a typical visual programming environment but is it that useful? And that’s as many APIs as there are words if not more so it’s impossible to put those in button on toolbars.

We actually have a fairly good discoverability UI in programming: contextual complete. It can show you what syntactically acceptable at the cursor, what APIs available and match what’s typed so far and even documentation for the selected option. It’s much more than any word processor gives.

@rahoulb we mostly have driving licenses because cars are dangerous to others. If only the driver was in danger we might’ve never had licensing: each makes an informed decision by sitting into the car.

I think same will go for AI. Unless AI becomes as dangerous to others as cars.

I think we’re much more likely to see application restrictions than operator licensing.