I consider myself to be fairly senior, and use it all the time for learning new things. I work with some brilliant senior developers who lean on it heavily, but I do think it doesn't mesh with the cognitive styles of many.
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For the tutorial you linked to, there's a lot of prior knowledge assumed, which the author alludes to in the summary, which a chat interface would help with:
This time I decided to focus on the essence of the topic rather than building basic React and CSS, so I skipped those basic parts. I believe it makes this article easier to digest.
I once worked with someone who was brilliant, but fell apart when we tried to do pair-programming (acturial major who had moved into coding). The verbal communication overhead was too much for him.
Yes, it absolutely can. I threw together a PowerPoint presentation with a script for a low-value, high visibility meeting a couple of weeks ago with ChatGPT 4.0 and a PowerPoint plugin. Everyone loved it.
Sure I probably would have been able to do it without ChatGPT, but it was so much easier to have something to bounce ideas off-of. A safety net, if you will.
The hallucination risk was irrelevant: it did hallucinate a little early on. I told it it was a hallucinating, and we moved onto a different way of solving the problem. It was easy enough to verify it was working as expected.
I remember when this saying referred to people rolling their own cryptography algorithms. When did it become about not doing your own auth? (I agree it's generally a bad idea, but curious about the scope expansion of the statement)
That seems to be a matter of survival overriding ethics and professional pride. I know I came up with some really cringeworthy and complex solutions as a mid-level dev, but I would never have done it deliberately.
If people are put into a situation where they need to purposefully write substandard code to not get deported, it's something that needs to be fixed.
We tried pair-programming, and he cracked within a few minutes. He couldn't articulate his thought processes verbally. Sounds similar to the scenario you're describing.
"A record 1.2 million U.S. vehicle buyers chose to go electric last year, according to estimates from Kelley Blue Book, a Cox Automotive company. More specifically, 1,189,051 new electric vehicles (EVs) were put into service as the slow shift to an electrified future continued unabated. In 2023, the EV share of the total U.S. vehicle market was 7.6%, according to Kelley Blue Book estimates. That is up from 5.9% in 2022.
EV sales in the fourth quarter set a record for both volume and share: 317,168 and 8.1%, respectively. And while records were set, the oft-reported slowdown is real. Q4 EV sales increased year over year by 40% – a strong result by any measure, except when compared to the growth the industry saw in previous quarters. The market posted a 49% gain in Q3, and EV sales were up 52% year over year in Q4 2022. By volume, EV sales in Q4 were higher than in Q3 by roughly 5,000 units. The EV market in the U.S. is still growing, but not growing as fast."
https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q4-2023-ev-sales/
I have a fairly large portfolio of legacy in-life systems that are stuck in limbo now, and a limited group of developers to move them to .NET 8.
We wont have to move them into isolated mode on short notice, to get them to .NET 8 but this isn’t the Microsoft of old, where backwards-compatibility is a paramount consideration.
Haney thinks the bill is already being misconstrued and said that it would only require that companies be transparent about their expectations for working hours. Employers would still have the freedom to dictate their policy, which could include that employees be available around-the-clock, he said.
Maybe we'll return to looking for lower costs, but an aging and wealthier world might prize comfort more than it did in the past.
To establish their credentials, they get involved in arcane areas like Articles for Deletion or other areas that you’d expect would be of more interest to experienced editors.
Now everyone has the right to edit anything on Wikipedia, but it’s starting to feel like paid editors have gained a foothold.
My email address is firstname.midddlename@<wellknownemailprovder>.com
I get a dozen emails a week from companies and government agencies trying to reach people with the same first + middle name combination from around the world. People seem to think they automatically get an email address with their name provisioned or something and they just sign up for accounts and services using that combo.
I was watching a documentary about US Navy boot camp, and was wondering if people who are headed for in-demand roles are given more help/slack than generalists? There was someone with a college degree who was going to intelligence, and I doubted they'd be dumped as easily as someone who just scraped their way in.
There’s a balance between disruptive change and keeping these folks on board. Get it wrong and you’ll end up with it strangled in its cradle.
My own take is that low-code platforms will continue aggressively moving into this space, especially in the enterprise space. They come with their own problems and are often aggressively overhyped, but they will put pressure on “traditional” developers to move faster and look for better solutions.
I feel uncomfortable asking for pseudoephedrine by name, but I do so anyway, because my doctor told me that phenylephrine was hopeless 15 years ago.
https://youtu.be/gJPtwy7gAgM?si=j6xsLJVley7hYllA
The same sort of “they tried take my video down” and “the staff emailed me”.
It seems to be his spiel. That doesn’t mean it isn’t valid, but it is interesting.