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You can not use it. You spent your life minus a couple of years not using it. You could totally get back into coding but LLMs have you trapped like a tethered elephant.

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Speech recognition got the number of years wrong. It's more like 30 years. I was forced to stop programming in 1994.

And hand problems was an aggregate thing. first chronic pain then fine motor control and tremors. The pain flares up again if I try to use my hands too much.

I don't see the llms have me trapped like a tethered elephant anymore than the other layers of entrapment that we live with. I would argue entrapment started when we learned the secret was banging rocks together.

Or did you mean some other kind of entrapment?

Missed the part where they had stopped entirely because of chronic pain? Are you somehow aware of the levels of pain they deal with daily to be able to say they could “totally” do it without?

They didn't say anything about chronic pain, but with that extra context I do understand now.

Re-reading they indeed didn’t say “chronic pain”, that was me extrapolating. However I think it’s still relatively safe to assume “hand problems” prevalent enough to prevent them from typing code for many years to be both painful and chronic.

You're right. I misread it. I'd hate to lose my ability to type and jump at the chance to be able to use a computer again.

You're right, and problems were chronic and painful and as I said elsewhere, have mutated over the past 30 odd years. Speech recognition error misrecognized 30 years as 3 years.

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