Yeah, in my experience, it’s quite a bit harder than Pooky is suggesting here. It’s often not obvious how to make things more maintainable, and a good intuition for how to do it is a valuable skill.

A programmer relying on the plagiarism machine is someone who's not, at all, thinking about how to make maintainable code. They're not thinking of what happens 6 months later when someone needs to change it.

You can tell, because they didn't bother writing it in the first place.

related: teeth are not optional bones and dentistry should be fully covered.

As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.

Jewish law, btw, doesn’t demand that you love your enemy, because that is cruelty to you. But it does demand that you help them get their fallen ox or donkey upright and pick up the dropped load.