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Cake day: February 8th, 2025

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  • Nothing wrong with a professional developer with years of experience using AI as a tool for coding, just as long as they review the output first before using it in their project. My workplace (where I work as a dev) provides us with a Claude subscription to use it as a tool. It’s kind of just like using a drill instead of a screwdriver to screw something into a wall - done well in the right hands it’s fine, give it to a 13yo and they’re going to drive the screw through the plaster and make a holy mess of it.

    What IS wrong is a human who has little-to-no experience coding using an AI to develop the entire codebase and then the human releases the code into the wild without some level of peer review from a human who DOES have experience and then claiming it as their own creation. That’s almost sloppy plagiarism (of ironically already sloppy plagiarism).


  • Maybe one day our elected leaders will actually do some leading, rather than pandering to people in their pockets (and I’m not talking about one or another political party, they’re all shit). Whats the alternative at the moment? I don’t know. Meritocracy has some useful features, but it’s historic applications have not worked out so well long tern and sometimes devolves into socialism or is abused to create substantive inequality. History has alot of great examples of where different alternatives have not worked…