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Re:Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with ... by jcgrillo on Friday September 06, 2024 @06:54PM (#41470268)
In a similar vein, some days I feel like a human link generator into e.g. postgres or kafka documentation. When docs are that clear, refined, and just damn good but it seems like nobody is willing to actually read them closely enough to "get it" it's just a very depressing and demotivating experience. If I could never again have to explain what a transaction isolation level is or why calling kafka a "queue" makes no sense at all I'd probably live an extra decade.

At the root of it, there's a profound arrogance in putting someone else in a position where they are compelled to tell you you're wrong[1]. Curious, careful people don't do this very often because they are aware of the limits of their knowledge and when they don't know something they go find it out. Unfortunately this is surprisingly rare.

[1] to be clear, I'm speaking here as someone who has been guilty of this before, now regrets it, and hopes to never do it again.

Re:Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with ... by sgarland on Friday September 06, 2024 @09:32PM (#41470940)
I've taken to asking if people have read docs (and linking them to the correct page). So far it hasn't changed anything. Unfortunate.
Re:Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with ... by kragen on Saturday September 07, 2024 @07:14AM (#41473214)
last night someone told me about objdump -S. i wish i'd known about this many years ago; it would have saved me so much work

in my defense, though, it's possible the option didn't exist when i first read the objdump manual

Re:Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with ... by shadow28 on Sunday September 08, 2024 @12:28AM (#41478205)
Slightly off topic, but there's currently work underway to introduce queue like semantics to Kafka interestingly enough - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...