• 1hitsong@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, that tracks.

    At work someone estimated adding a section of static content to a page that uses React as 3 story points.

    They were searching for components that would style the header and paragraph elements just as they wanted them, but were coming up short.

    Instead I simply added it with html elements and a couple of lines of CSS.

    5 minutes. Done.

    😐

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I swear this isn’t a get off my lawn post

    Proceeds to spend 5 paragraphs complaining about what people call the original Javascript. He has some valid points, but this is very much an older developer complaining about the new generation of devs.

    • mbirth@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      new generation of devs

      The new generation of devs sadly has a lot of people that only can type what they want to achieve into ChatGPT and blindly copy whatever code snippet it comes up with. But they can’t develop. Nor do they understand code written by others. They’re the reason things like NodeJS’s is-even package exists.

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        3 months ago

        We’ve been saying that about new devs since there became a second generation of devs

        Except when I was a new dev, it was blindly copying stuff from stack overflow

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          3 months ago

          In Phaedrus, Socrates talks about the invention of writing:
          “it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.”