Yep

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Everything wrong with this country in one picture. No difference between centrist democrats and republicans.

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One thing I'm finding a little frustrating about the LLM discourse is how it is often eliding other simpler tools that have had much greater impact. In my own coding career, I've benefited a hell of a lot more from compilers, flexible version control, linters and code scanning tools, grammar checks

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Anyhow, I could go on. I continue to find this a fascinating field (I've been a programmer my entire life), and I don't like the idea that we are ceding our agency and curiosity and creativity as engineers to an probabilistic text generation machine. Let it do the accidental complexity, but no more

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There is a joke among software developers that the favorite phrase of a sr. software engineer is "It depends," because almost always it does depend on what you want, the time you have, costs, the most important factors, etc. The pragmatics are why we call it software engineering. LLMs ignore that.

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