everyone who uses an llm to code more than me is voluntarily deskilling themselves, everyone who uses it less than me might as well be hand-wiring together vacuum tubes

You think everything with an em-dash is the result of AI? Who do you think trained it to write that way?

"I learned recursion before for loops, and I learned immutability before mutability."

I liked this blog, I have similar opinions.

My first subject at Uni used Scheme. IMO learning about alternative functional patterns first, set me up to be a great programmer.

sgt.hootr.club/molten-matte...

Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of features and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.

Me, history professor: "Students please don't use AI. It doesn't work, you will fail, and it destroys the environment."

Some professional scientists: "Oh the thinking box will read for me!"

Your outie's code works on the first try

In #Australia, if you're disabled you can get a pension, the #DSP.

But if your partner earns too much, your pension goes away. As if you're magically less disabled because you married someone who isn't.

I don't think that's fair. If you agree, see: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

#disability

Introducing Open Ecoacoustics: a platform for continental-scale ecological monitoring and research in Australia. As part of ARDC's Machine Observation Data Processing Infrastructure, we use ecoacoustic technologies to promote open science and conservation. #OpenScience #Ecoacoustics #bioacoustics

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.

Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

The more I use GenAI coding tools, the more I am convinced keeping to "traditional" software engineering practices is what works most productive here. As in 10x more productive. E.g.

- Small changes
- Test that the change works before moving on
- (unit) tests wherever you can

My summary of 2024

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Ok time for my first post:

"Bin Night" is the best The Wiggles song, by far.

Stuck in my head for weeks now...