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A cynical view of the legal profession is that, "The law exists to create more law". Every licensed lawyer will attest to the veracity of that pithy statement. The analogous statement in #IT is this:

"#JavaScript—the language, the ecosystem, the coders, the lot—exists to create more JavaScript versions, more frameworks that repeat the same things, and and more jobs that do the same things."

Every currently-active #programmer will attest to the veracity of this not-so-pithy statement.

Time for an #Introduction post. I’m a #liveaboard #sailor (www.svloka.com) and full time #nomad who is also a #creative #artist. I play #guitar, #crochet, paint (#watercolor & #acrylic), and draw #penandink. I love #yoga and use #meditation to manage my #anxiety. Got #sober in 2020.

I am a recovering #softwareengineer (#programmer) and #ITmanager. I focused a lot on #leadership & effective #communication, and I still enjoy #mentoring people on those topics. I still tinker with tech on occasion.

#lispyGopherClimate #archived communitymedia.video/videos/wa #gopher #technology #podcast #lisp

complete archive peertube

#climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman thanks as always!

#interview with exceptionally #libre #gopher @someodd gopher://gopher.someodd.zip and #haskell #programmer . They run a lot of libre services as well. As always questions, boosts welcome

Chat in #lambdaMOO as always
telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join screwtape

@rat @hairylarry @nosrednayduj @prahou @mdhughes

I don't use #LLMs in my daily #coding, and I don't want to. It is my impression that in this regard they are good for two things:

1. Inspiration if you are stuck on a problem.
2. API / SDK help.

I do not want to see LLM generated code in a pull request, just like I do not want to see code pasted directly from Stack Overflow. The job of a #programmer is to know what is being put into the code and have an opinion on how problems should be solved, and the best way to achieve this is to write the code yourself.

When you do use code generated from machine learning, you should be extremely suspicious about it to ensure it's doing what you expect it to. My habit from Stack Overflow is to type in the code myself to make sure I go over all of it.