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[-] lechatron@lemmy.today 89 points 5 days ago

My project manager refuses to use hotkeys, watching her copy/paste with the right click context menu takes years off my life.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago

Years ago saw someone copy/pasting stuff in Excel one field at a time using the "Edit" menu. She told me this way she knew it was working.

I had to walk away.

I will also say that back then computers were a lot scarier, since many people had never used them. People were terrified of clicking the wrong thing.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 10 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I am the same.
I type the code myself, so I know what it actually means, instead of letting AI do it.

It might seem different now, but 10-20 years down the line, they might be the same energy.

[-] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 9 points 5 days ago

I mean maybe. But one is a deterministic way to do the exact same thing, the other is a nondeterministic way to maybe do a similar thing.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that's right.

But are enough of the AI generation people going to understand the difference?
I feel like, due to the reduction of quality expectations, they will just end up feeling the same about this as we do about the previous one, despite the difference being visible as night and day for us.

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