You want to turn my 300 lines of clear, readable and concise logic into 1,000 lines of English paragraphs that break up the functions of my code into yet smaller pieces of code devoid of context? Now I have to dig through that book, ignoring all the shit I’ve read hundreds of times because it doesn’t compile into anything, just to debug an off-by-1 error in a loop buried in a paragraph explaining the original developers diatribe on why we’re looping over that range? Fuck. No.

This is the sort of academic crap that sounds good but in practice is just terrible for anything other than small projects that are intended specifically to teach.

This is something I’ve said for a very long time. Everytime some RAD or “low code” tool claims that it will make developers obsolete because “you won’t need to write code”! I know that I’m going to need to help some BA use that tool and that there will be a tiny little box hidden in that tool somewhere which let’s me write code to work around its limitations.

LLMs are useful to a developer as a cordless drill is to an engineer.

Software development is about understanding logic, data structures, and how to solve business problems with computers. A language is simply what we use to do that.

That sounds so painful. Not surprising it never caught on.

So, containers do not get you reproducibility.

You absolutely do. If you build a container and publish it you will pull down that exact thing every time. How is that not “reproducibility”?

You no what though? Scratch that - who gives a fuck? Bit-for-bit reproducibility takes far more effort than it’s worth anyway. Even NixOS isn’t completely reproducible. It’s a false goal.

For dev environments, repeatable is okay.

It’s well more than good enough you mean.

If you want actually reproducible binaries that you can ship, Nix is better fit for that purpose.

Nobody really needs that.

docker build . -t docker.company.com/build-env:1.0 && docker push docker.company.com/build-env:1.0

But for like 99% of development teams “repeatable” is Good Enough™.

Containers also don’t give you reproducible environments, and Nix does.

Of course it does. 🙄

sigh, yes it is.

Meh. So is docker.

You couldn’t figure out how they make money? This took me like 1 minute to find.

https://www.zimaspace.com/

I don’t make the rules. If you’re on lemmy qnd nextcloud does exactly what you want you need to complain about it being “over engineered” or “bloated” because it does things you don’t need.

No, you have to complain about them. It’s the law.

Linus did 3 videos on “how to degoogle your life” and only 1 was taken down. That one told people how to circumvent YouTube’s platform and monetary system which violated the community guidelines.

It will stay up. Do you know how many YouTube videos there are badmouthing Google? They don’t care so long as you’re watching them.

I reject the idea that “excellence” must always be the goal in pursuing an interest.

The devs I know use it as a tool and check their work and fully understand the code they’ve produced.

So your experience vs. mine. I suspect you just work with shitty developers who would be producing shitty work whether they were using AI or not.

It’s great as autocomplete.

I love the weird need to downplay just how good AIs are by calling them “autocomplete”.

Ah - yeah I read that wrong. It’s useful to a programmer.

I mean - the AI models do a lot more than just that one task you know. Or are you a “real programmer” who doesn’t need AI tools because “real men” don’t need help?

Ah knock it off. Jesus you sound like people in the '90s mocking “intellisense” in the IDE as somehow making programmers “less real programmers”.

It’s all needless gatekeeping and purity test BS. Use tools that are useful. Don’t worry if it makes you less of a man.

Well, this kind of AI won’t ever be useful as a programmer

It already is.