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[–] 32 points 21 hours ago (10 children)

I have full time Linux users on my team. I fix their code all day and go home to use all 3 os’s.

Using Linux means you like tinkering, not that your smarter or more capable.

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  • [–] 8 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

    I've been using linus for like 27 years or so, but I don't think I've been tinkering with my desktop for 20 years. Tinkering with my servers of course.

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  • [–] 16 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    I've been using linus for like 27 years or so

    New honeypot just dropped?!

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  • [–] 5 points 19 hours ago

    The question the OOP is getting at isn't about being smarter or more capable. It's about knowing how to probem solve, which is itself about feeling like it's ok to tinker.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago

    I'm an Ubuntu user and don't give a shit about tinkering or being smart. I just like that it's faster than Microsoft and isn't Microsoft. Also when windows needs to update it's a whole thing. Fuck a whole thing. Apple products are also stupid.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 child)

    Liking to tinker things is somewhat correlated to being more capable or even smarter, though; I mean, you can't tinker if you're not capable and/or don't know how to do it.

    With LLMs you can theoretically tinker, but in my experience, 90% of the output will be hallucinated.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

    Can you fix a carb? Or replace your fuel injector? What about build a small table for your home? Run a Cnc? Maybe you don’t tinker enough then.

    Your hobby makes you more capable in your hobby.

    And your take and experience on llm’s is trash. The models are excellent coders and simply need context. There are only a few specific domains where they don’t produce excellent code. They aren’t going away in tech. There will be a middle ground where they are used.

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