Even the text touches some really good points, after reading his bio on Twitter, it shouts some LinkedIn AI text crap.
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koehler
I truly don't get it
You have a rock solid piece of software used by an infinite amount of people and other services. It works fine, does it's job and just have some time to time updates due to minor bug fixes.
Why do we need AI here?
And more over, why people is saying "fork it and use the previous version". It should be actually all the way around, create a parallel fork younamethetool-ai and keep the OG untouched.
What I have to do now, keep a fork of my entire system's toolkit?
To be honest, I remember myself back during my first dev seps struggling a lot reading code since a lot of the senior programmers tend to code very effectively, so it was extremely hard to follow an end-to-end solution without terribles headaches.
This is just brilliant, not only because as educational exercises explains perfectly what's doing but the business/thinking process/context.
Never read 1k lines so quickly before, never enjoyed so much.
I'm planning to use it as a roadmap of how many things I should learn :)
It's time to stop: Memes in dev articles
Or why it's ok to not be funny and still good communicator
Is this still valid ?