@mostr4am I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for you tho. Or sorry it happened.

@mostr4am well done, you've learnt to diffuse instead of escalate.

@mostr4am I see you've met insecure men. In a mirror perhaps?

@mostr4am ya know, it's always the short guys that obsess about how tall they aren't.

@mostr4am ah, so big for a 5 year old.

@mostr4am yeesh you're angry. Small peepee syndrome?

When you say they fired him for DEI, do you mean they fired him for being racist?

@just8littleBit hand me the pitcher, I'll drink both.

@just8littleBit the loonatics run the asylum I'm afraid. I just poke the bear for fun. It's not a very clever bear, as we see here.

If the AI products can replace programmers, they'll release their own version of most major commercial software products. Until then, hype.

@mostr4am I was talking about Russia. Lotsa war crimes goin around at the moment. Also, not American.

Ah, you're in favor of the side beheading soldiers that have surrendered?

The only kind of industry certs I've seen anyone with are cloud (AWS) certs. Even then, for the most part nobody gives a shit.

Lie. Tell them you're using GPT to write code.

@mostr4am I decided to extrapolate from the profile about rather than the name...

@retoor and you are a... Dutch woman?

This place is slowly dying unfortunately.

You can get the wrong answer even faster!

Front end web devs, specially junior, are a dime a dozen these days though. that's probably got worse. Bootcamps and such.

I think getting to the interview stage is worse. AI screening and online tests. I think the actual face to face interview process is about the same.

@Lensflare touché, I think my problem is the project I'm working on is a data analysis tool, the software engineers don't understand the maths stuff (there's literally a cr comment asking why we do something and my response is just a link to a Wikipedia article) and the data science folks, most of whom are crappy programmers so I've got to put in words what we're doing. I can't win...

@BobbyTables smaller isn't better. Locality is better.

@Lensflare I disagree, documentation is for hard to understand code. It might be very readable but incomprehensible without context.

Welcome to the world of performance. Profile everything, your assumptions are probably wrong.

@Wisecrack they're basically already instructing gpt to generate code to answer questions, like basic math or counting letters in words
https://youtube.com/shorts/...

@retoor I didn't read anything past gpt, so if you're referencing something it said, I've got no idea. Give a citation. GPT is an approximation, not knowledge. Anyway, it's 1am here so I'm off to bed.

@retoor jesus fucking christ I don't care what gpt says, it's just spouting what you want to hear. Cite something rigorously researched, like, for example, the OED. Unless you can only find puff pieces to support your argument.

@retoor there are lots of articles about this because people like to bike shed.

@retoor I'm not triggered. I'm not putting any effort into this coz I already know this shit. I find linguistics interesting.

@retoor so! The Wikipedia article is referencing the OED's cited examples of usage. The OED doesn't specify that date as the earliest use in that form, that's just the earliest example they cite. The page cited by Wikipedia does not talk about when that form started to be used.