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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I can:

  • Accomplish damn near anything from a command line
  • Write machine code
  • Remember a fairly broad swath of special character altcodes without looking them up
  • Disassemble damn near any computer or other machine, and stand a good chance of putting it back together

But also:

  • Use modern programming languages, including object oriented paradigms
  • Actually read what is on my screen and comprehend it, including error messages
  • Understand and operate any arbitrary interface without having to have it explained to me by rote

Behold my mixture of skills, and tremble.

[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Can you summarize this in a vertical video? I stopped reading after the third word, I'm here for memes, not to read a damned book!

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

"Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written"

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd argue at a certain depth in an OS its actually harder to do things with a GUI than a command line

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The day I started learning Regex was the day I felt like I was really learning computers. I went from 2 hour tasks to 15 minutes.

I doubt you’d even be able to reasonably explain what they are let alone how they work to the average person outside the Millennial generation.

I fear AI data processing will replace much of the Regex skill set. Why learn Regex when the computer just does it for you… 🙄

[-] mearce@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

I agree that regex is an important thing to learn. Not sure any old LLM would do a very good job, and I hope that no tool replaces people actually learning how to write regex.

I'm not sure what you mean about the average person outside the millennial generation not understanding them, though. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I don't think the 'average' person in any generation knows what regex is. Unless there is some reason the average millennial was actually exposed to them and forced to understand them?

As for being doubtful that anyone could understand them aside from a millennial, I assume you're being hyperbolic? Sort of sounds like "Kids these days can never learn what I learned!" (I'm teasing).

Anyway I'm in agreement with you. This thread did remind me of a pretty neat project that, while still requiring domain knowledge, could save some time and be a good learning tool without being as fallible of a crutch as an LLM.

Have not tried it, and am not an experienced developer, so I am curious to your thoughts/criticisms: https://github.com/pemistahl/grex

[-] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They're a witch speaking in tongues! Burn them!

[-] haroldfinch@feddit.nl 0 points 2 months ago

You just made me realize the Zoomers are actually much closer to making Warhammer 40k a reality. IT engineers are like Tech Priests to these Zoomers.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I don't know much of Warhammer lore, so I had to look up tech priests:

"No longer the master of its creations, the Cult Mechanicus is enslaved to the past. It maintains the glories of yesteryear with rite, dogma and edict instead of true discernment and comprehension. For instance, even the theoretically simple process of activating a vehicle's engine is preceded by the application of ritual oils, the burning of sacred resins and the chanting of long and complex hymns. "

Its clear to me the author of this block of text was having trouble starting his vehicle's engine, and was pissed off when he/she was asked to put in a ticket before help would be rendered to the him/her.

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago

he/she

What's this nonsense? Why don't you just say "they" like a normal person?

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

If you’ve never read it Vernon Vinge a fire upon the deep had a type of programmers in the future known as programmer archaeologists. The tldr is nobody wrote new code just dug up old code and bolted it together. I used to think that was silly, after llms lately and dealing with interns I no longer think of it as fiction.

[-] Ghostbanjo1949@lemmy.mengsk.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

I've always viewed programmer archaeology is just trying to understand your old code or the team you are working withs old code and also trying to understand the why it was done this way.

I think AI coding is a programmer archeologist based on your definition, and I think I may start using that now.

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mean it’s kinda both, I just thought the idea a bit preposterous but as time goes on that book gets closer to reality.

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