▲ 411 ▼ Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code (tech.yahoo.com) submitted 4 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 77 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (3 children) It is more useful to explain why something is wrong permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (2 children) Yeah the explanation was fine but the "What? That's a very different situation" seemed unnecessarily hostile. But maybe it just have my panties in a bunch today, it could be me permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child) I wasn't intentionally trying to be rude, it genuinely took me aback. I'm sorry to have come across that way. From my perspective, tt felt like you hadn't actually read my argument and were responding in bad faith, since this comparison is the sort of thing that people say to dismiss software engineering as a sort of thought-terminating cliche. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago Oh, my bad. I didn't really need to take offense to it, I was probably just grumpy and didn't know what else to say. It wasn't that big a deal. But no, I wasn't trying to be dismissive of your argument qua software engineering, but I see how it came off that way. I think it was a good argument, I was just bringing up something tangentially related out of nothing more than free-association style banter. In hindsight it wasn't really that relevant to the conversation anyway... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (2 children) Yeah the explanation was fine but the "What? That's a very different situation" seemed unnecessarily hostile. But maybe it just have my panties in a bunch today, it could be me permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child) I wasn't intentionally trying to be rude, it genuinely took me aback. I'm sorry to have come across that way. From my perspective, tt felt like you hadn't actually read my argument and were responding in bad faith, since this comparison is the sort of thing that people say to dismiss software engineering as a sort of thought-terminating cliche. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago Oh, my bad. I didn't really need to take offense to it, I was probably just grumpy and didn't know what else to say. It wasn't that big a deal. But no, I wasn't trying to be dismissive of your argument qua software engineering, but I see how it came off that way. I think it was a good argument, I was just bringing up something tangentially related out of nothing more than free-association style banter. In hindsight it wasn't really that relevant to the conversation anyway... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child) I wasn't intentionally trying to be rude, it genuinely took me aback. I'm sorry to have come across that way. From my perspective, tt felt like you hadn't actually read my argument and were responding in bad faith, since this comparison is the sort of thing that people say to dismiss software engineering as a sort of thought-terminating cliche. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago Oh, my bad. I didn't really need to take offense to it, I was probably just grumpy and didn't know what else to say. It wasn't that big a deal. But no, I wasn't trying to be dismissive of your argument qua software engineering, but I see how it came off that way. I think it was a good argument, I was just bringing up something tangentially related out of nothing more than free-association style banter. In hindsight it wasn't really that relevant to the conversation anyway... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago Oh, my bad. I didn't really need to take offense to it, I was probably just grumpy and didn't know what else to say. It wasn't that big a deal. But no, I wasn't trying to be dismissive of your argument qua software engineering, but I see how it came off that way. I think it was a good argument, I was just bringing up something tangentially related out of nothing more than free-association style banter. In hindsight it wasn't really that relevant to the conversation anyway... permalink fedilink source parent