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2026-04-16 14:00 UTC
@mixdup@mastodon.social Same here. My biggest problem with it now that I have to deal with is people outsourcing thinking to it. I'm trying to convince people that struggling to elucidate a thought or come up with a plan is a *good* thing. The struggle is how you hone and refine your ideas and identify gaps in knowledge. Insert some adage about the journey being the destination.
On the other hand I find LLMs pretty cool for learning stuff especially when I'm just not interested in learning the nitty gritty. I can say "write me some Windows 2000 C98-compatible code to enumerate AppleTalk zones using multithreading" and bam, it does!
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@mixdup@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 14:24
@mroach@ublog.mroach.com yeah, I actually kind of love it for building things. I've already been using it extensively for quick little scripts to bash up a report or migration I need to do at work. Now I'm breaking off a web app + eventually iOS app as a side project On the other hand everything I get from my boss or another exec, or a rep at a vendor or anyone else is the output they got from Copilot when they dumped in a one-liner related to what we're working on together, and I hate hate HATE that usage