Post #3284637

@arun@fantastic.earth I did accept that not all man pages are well written and in those cases, they are a UX failure even for an experienced sysadmin. I also accept that something I find easy to do at this point (using sed, for example) will be considered arcane by some people. However, not everything can be easy to figure out in life, regardless of how excellent our documentation and onboarding is. Learning stuff takes time. Even using a bare bones GUI file manager like Nautilus will take time for someone who has just migrated from Windows. If I try to learn how to use Racket or Scheme to replace my CommonMark files, it'll take time. I can throw an LLM at it to do that for me and it'll take seconds to do something I might take a few months to do but there will be no learning or scope of improvement or creativity in that case. I guess it depends on the context? I don't have to understand how Wayland works to use a compositor like Sway. An abstraction like that is practical and expected. However, one has to question if such an abstraction is really healthy in cases where learning and improvement is the objective. What if we never teach kids how to manually compute the square root of a number or never tell them how to figure out the hypotenuse of a triangle and just ask them to rote learn the formula and use a calculator? @jschauma@mstdn.social