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submitted 5 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47150767

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[–] 31 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    She told me this way she knew it was working.

    To be fair, I always Ctrl+C multiple once to make sure it copied, even though one would be enough. Humans are pretty irrational

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months 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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