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Post #4390379

2026-08-05 05:44 UTC

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange As for coding: do as you will. There is nothing wrong with just coding in a language you are fluent in. But when you aren't - it's damn handy to have something that takes fuzzy english pseudocode and gives you something you can run. And the AI can fairly reliably transcode my code in, say, python, to a language I am only semi-fluent in. You may need to iterate a bit, but - being able to take my python code and have the AI redo it in golang or rust is pretty cool and useful at times. I code for a living. It's not "fun" coding - it's usually data analysis and troubleshooting. The sooner I can get working code, the sooner I can fix the thing I'm fixing. Letting the AI do the scutwork by saying "ingest jsonl on stdin and emit the following fields as csv with headers" is faster and easier than working out the exact paths I need. /shrug

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  • @darkuncle@infosec.exchange 2026-08-05 05:51

    @tbortels@infosec.exchange the argument is quite simply that English is an inherently ambiguous language unsuitable for the precision needed for communicating with computers. That we can perhaps work around this, in some cases, with extra effort, is beside the point.

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