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I think this is a very common sentiment among a lot of people, including me.
And also that’s why AI tools create mix reactions. A couple of months ago a post went viral which was really insightful on what I was originally drawn to cs.
I think that was the starting point of author. Similar to “meme” the term is too broad on purpose, so you come up with different possible ideas depending where you started from
Agree that’s kind of the hard part of trying to categorize them.
Spatial and temporal locality can be a thing. And depending on how you take them into account they can be more or less clear categories
The book is better conceptually than history wise.
Interesting your type 4 final stage nihilism, not sure if it will consider a type 4 given that it only self destructive.
Not impossible if Claude is the main contributor, almost all repos I see now now has it in the top 3
I read the author’s previous blog. I feel like I had a similar path regarding my thoughts in AI, and came to a similar realization but never quite put it words.
The "Year of the Linux Desktop" has always been a meme, but posts like this show we’ve hit a silent inflection point. When a long-time macOS power user finds the transition "uneventful" (save for some shortcut muscle memory), it says a lot about the polish of modern Fedora.
I generally feel the same. But in addition, I also enjoy the pure act of coding. At least for me that’s another big part why I feel left behind with all this Agent stuff.
As I see it learning “on-demand” is good enough for most programming tasks. But I agree with the blog post tat the situations you mentioned where a person can actually learn new theory and perhaps push the boundaries are increasingly rarer.
Agreed, but the terminology doesn’t seems to be the point. It makes some decent arguments about “on-demand” learning not being great for learning theoretical things.