Hey, if the shoe fits...
So their "solution" is for senior developers to keep giving work to junior developers... In order to prevent senior developer salaries from skyrocketing.
Now write my whole name!
Oh yes, I remember. I remember that Google started to become worse and worse starting around 2018. By 2020, SEO was too damned good and ruined so much of the results. By 2024, trying to find technical info became so difficult I'd end up searching with DDG which was sometimes better.
All this was before AI slop existed.
Don't blame AI. Blame SEO by commercial interests. They've been generating slop since the early 2000s. AI just makes them faster at it.
Are we so forgetful that we don't remember that Google used to work for this kind of thing but doesn't anymore?
Seriously, trying to find answers when some obscure package isn't working is really hard sometimes and using AI to search the Internet on your behalf works really fucking well for that. It's not the same thing as generating slop!
Wait: He suddenly wants to fund mental health treatment?
Republicans, how can you stand for this? There's a socialist in your midst!
What's funny is that—upon being abducted at gunpoint and forced into a mental hospital—trans patients would be given HRT and the usual treatments that conservatives hate. Because that's what the science says to do and hospitals are legally required to treat their patients using actual, FDA-approved medical practices/procedures.
As a tool for learning Linux AI is fantastic. I'm going to have to disagree with you there.
Example: You get an error. You don't understand it or how to fix it. You copy and paste the error into Google: The answer you seek is probably on the 5th page after all the SEO bullshit. You copy and paste the error into Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, etc and you get immediate details and possibly the exact answer you're looking for. Not only that, but if you still don't understand you can ask it further questions and have it clarify and that actually works really well.
IMHO, you're conflating "AI slop" aka "AI output, generated with as little effort as possible to avoid having to think" with "AI output, generated because you're thinking and want to find or understand something."
The two are miles apart.
It didn't say what companies it was. Anyone know?
For all we know it was some physics lab trying to develop fusion reactor designs.
If they just changed the sweatshirt from GAP to Stanford nobody would've noticed or cared.
Changing the guy into a back girl? WTF? Why‽ There's no purpose or point. Unless the editor hated that guy or something?
Have you ever actually tried it? Simple example: Try using an emoji for an assignment: ⭐=foo or foo=⭐
It doesn't work? Why? Because emojis aren't valid for assignments. Why? Because Python follows Unicode Standard Annex #31 (UAX #31). Since emoji are classified as symbols, you can't use them for assignments.
Who cares? We're taking Mandarin, right? Except there's a practical problem: The most common input method for typing Mandarin (and other languages with bazillions of characters) outputs full-width characters (e.g. ＝ full width equal sign) and this screws everything up. It does this for equals, parentheses, commas, and a few other symbols.
My friend said that was the most annoying thing: Having to constantly switch back and forth.
However, many characters that are used as normal words also don't work for assignments. For example, Chinese numerals: 一, 二, 三 (the English equivalent of, one, two, three)
Then there's a practical problem: It looks wacky AF, making the code harder to read:
if 用户.is_active():
return 获取数据()
The input method editor problem is the biggest one because it really slows you down. Having to switch in and out of it constantly also creates huge friction when coding.
I just asked him and he just gave me something I didn't even think about: Apparently git diffs (on the command line) don't display Mandarin characters properly! That right there would make programming in Mandarin a no-go situation without a special git tool.
Apparently, if you want to be able to deploy your code at all you have to know English. Or at least, Linux English (e.g. ls and similar programs haha).
Thanks to the power of AI (Archeologist Intelligence), we were able to restore the original, ancient text. Since the AI can't know for certain what the purpose of such symbols meant at the time, it's presumed to be religious in nature.
I've spent loads of time working on Linux-based appliances! Most ran Debian and were fantastically simple to work with. Standard tools, simple/fast filesystems, and no surprises.