I mean I’m no fan of the Musk brigade, but I’m not ready to “pink mist” people based on a list of names someone I don’t know spread on the internet.

My lukewarm take is that all this hate on AI is really just hating on big companies trying to squeeze money out of some new development. AI (or rather LLMs) are not the problem.

We do this in Ruby all the time, we just prefer methods over variables, usually.

def authorized?
  current_user&.authorized?
end

Might be an unpopular take but… maybe being good at high school math tests is not really such an important gift in the real world.

Or business decides all specs and design decisions that were made last quarter were actually garbage and yes we do want to be able to manually override every step of the carefully designed state machine. We’d like to be able to manually change all calculated sales data, but also the data needs to remain in a consistent state at all times. Oh and while you’re there, we decided the commission calculations will use a different system from now on. We expect it to be online by the end of the week, thanks.

And then they will have ChatGPT read the job applications. And in the end all of human civilization will be LLMs talking to each other.

I’d like to see those little city cars added here, those little two seaters that don’t go more than 45kph. Could be a good compromise for lots of people with limited mobility

Maybe in enterprises settings what you say makes sense, but for the small to medium startups I usually work for, RoR is great. It’s super easy to prototype and switch lanes. If I had to do what I do in Java I’d go insane. As for Delphi…

The RoR “magic” being obtuse is extremely exaggerated most of the time and more meme than reality. If you think PHP is better, by which I guess you mean Laravel, how on earth is that less “magical”? React? Next? I’ll take Ruby any day.

I mean I’ve been using ActiveRecord for the last 20 ish years and I’ve never encountered or even heard of this bug. Sounds like you came across an especially obscure one.

Ragging on older generations though, comedy gold.

They missed “oh nevermind, I fixed it” without explaining how or ever commenting again.

Haha preach brother

Counter point. I had a customer call me back in the day when I was working tech support. Complained that his new computer wasn’t working. Plugged in, light goes on but the screen just stays blank. Turns out he only bought a monitor. Thought the guys at the store were trying to scam him into “buying two boxes” that he didn’t need. When I tried to explain he got mad saying I must be in on the scam.

Bonus points: when the call first connected his question was "why is my email not working?” Took a while to work that back to the actual issue.

Too many people in this thread are trying to give a serious answer to this question.

That’s how I thought it was supposed to be used. It’s “copilot” not “autopilot”. I don’t need nor want it to write whole functions for me.

Right, gaslighting CEOs not being dicks, that’s the day hell freezes over.

I hate the corporate grind too. So I only work for businesses small enough that I’m on a first name basis with the owner.

It’s all very romantic living in a cabin in the wilderniss but there’s a reason no one that has a choice lives that way.

You can work for your own reasons right now. But you don’t have the right to just grab any piece of land and confiscate it for your own use. There are too many of us for that.

I mean 5 weeks vacation per year certainly isn’t ideal but if I talk to friends from abroad I can’t help but feel lucky.