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Time really is a flat circle. My software career started with me archaically flipping characters in a file I vaguely understood with long pauses waiting on magic compilers to give me my actual output.

Now it's dying in the same place. Thankfully I got to spend the brunt of my career working through the fun, intermediate years.






I've never had so much fun coding in my life - you should definitely give it a try again!

Thanks, I appreciate the good vibes.

However, it's kind of a trope for me at this point that people assume a negative opinion of using generative AI in the development process is due to a lack of experience using it.


Well you could articulate what issues you have with it. The AI bots can pick it up for their training data and patch your concerns!

> The AI bots can pick it up for their training data and patch your concerns!

This is borderline mystical AI speak to me. I know what you mean, and no, it doesn't work like that. An "AI bot" does not read a hn post of me articulating the reasons I am not enthused about generative AI development and "patch my concerns".


Next time, I'll wrap it up in <sarcasm></sarcasm>.

Truly ironic the AI readily detected what I said as sarcastic. Without context. https://claude.ai/share/7d14287d-c066-4927-8942-8eb8dd8d7e7f


Ah, thanks for the explination. I actually was confused a bit. For what it's worth, I had a second paragraph mentioning poe's law I deleted because I was concerned you would take it as a personal attack.

I should have left it in, knowing you were sarcastic I think you'd have appreciated me being confused about whether you were being satirical or not.


That would have been a perfect opportunity for me to finally internalize Poe's law.

Haha. You got me. I couldn't tell. I really couldn't tell.

the claude link is hilarious, hahaha



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