Re:Does current AI represent a dead end?
by CalRobert on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:56AM
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I spent 8 hours trying to fix a bug once because notepad used smart quotation marks (really showing my age here - and now I'm pretty annoyed that the instructor was telling us to use notepad, but it was 2001 and I didn't know any better).
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I did something like that once too, a long time ago. And because of that I see syntax errors of such I’ll within seconds now, having learned once the hard way.
Re:Does current AI represent a dead end?
by CalRobert on Friday December 27, 2024 @01:41PM
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I also know how important the right tools are. I should’ve been using vi.
It amuses me to no end: in college I was a total emacs person, and now I’m a total vi person. There might be dozens of us!
I think both editors have their flaws, I just know the native vi keybindings better at the moment.
Re:Does current AI represent a dead end?
by CalRobert on Saturday December 28, 2024 @10:12AM
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Either of them would've made the problem obvious!
This was about a million years ago. I had just installed a pirated copy of Windows XP (FCKGW-RHQQ2...) and was in the first quarter of my physics degree, taking a class in C. Different times....