This is great, thank you! Your contributions are great, I personally only get annoyed when people post stuff way too many of the same thread in an hour. I think like a daily newsletter like thing is fine for most people.

You are right… though I will point out that is the speed of a delivering product which is what AI is good at and what managers want, speed of writing lines of code was never a good metric. Other than that programs have always been judged by their quality, function and performance, which perhaps AI can still improve and get better than the average programmer. Most tech companies have in the last decade prioritizing shipping fast over shipping quality, so that’s why many companies see AI as something that fit right in with their production philosophy.

Nonetheless, the point is whether coding without AI is impossible as Molyneux said depends on your definition, Pandora’s box is opened and it’s in almost every tool, but creating new code or documentation with AI or not is still your own choice.

If you take a very broad definition of “using AI” as ever having used a Google search where an AI summary came up, or having used a Linux or Microsoft kernel, IDE or software component version where AI was used for coding or checking/verifying the code in any way, then yes, it’s almost impossible, as you will have to revert your tooling completely to a 2022 or earlier toolchain.

However, your decision to use an LLM (AI) to generate new code is fully your decision as a programmer to make, always will be and I don’t think that’s anywhere close to impossible.

Trump’s senile rambling is one thing we’re well aware of, but what’s weirder is where the audience claps. In the clip, it’s quiet until he says, “Norway sucks” then kind of paused for a light polite applause.

I betcha Chuck and Hakeem are going to be on their way out as legislature leaders following the election, if not this year then in 2028. But they can only pass the torch to a Democratic Majority Leader of the respective house if the USA can go out and get that majority elected first.

What I found was good framing is that algorithms push good and shitty content on you because that was shown to hijack your neural pathways like a Skinner Box experiments. If it was only good stuff every time, then you’d watch what you feel like then stop. Because it mixes it up with a random chance of something good coming up, you get addicted to the scrolling in the hopes to find the good video in a pile of shit. The mice did the same, when food came out all the time they’d only push button for food enough to be full, when it was random they spammed the button and ate way more than they needed to.

If you want to watch a 10m video on it, or just the method to slowly recognize and kick the habit if you couldn’t stop cold turkey.

The essence of it is, set a timer for 5 minutes, scroll, then when the timer goes off, stop, put the phone down, ask yourself if you enjoyed your time doing it or not, if there’s anything else you’d rather get up and do. If you feel it was worth it to calm down or you got something out of it and actually want to keep going, set another 5 minute timer and do it again. Just the pause to consciously slow down and ask yourself that will help you limit your scrolling time, and as you brainstorm other ways to spend your time you may find you need to be scrolling less.

My personal method is to try to seek out what I want instead of having an algorithm determine what information I want to seek, and frequently question why something is being recommended to me.

I don’t want a copy of Reddit’s culture on Lemmy, but I think Lemmy’s culture will be similar because of the interaction format and because a sizable number of Lemmings I presume use Reddit and Lemmy both regularly. So it will be up to how close the viewer looks to determine if they seem the same or distinct.

I think one thing I don’t see much on Lemmy are the very tired 3+ nested comment chains that don’t add conversational value, like “and my axe!”. I’ve only seen it very occasionally, and usually in good joking taste, for example the trope “[term OP used] means this, you probably were thinking of [also incorrect word]”.