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Re:The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Of... by betenoire on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @11:56AM (#47324999)
> arrested development is the dark side of strengths in the sense of Positive Psychology

I see some correlation here to hesitancy in adopting LLMs for coding.

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Re:The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Of... by pwdisswordfishy on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @01:24PM (#47326238)
Explain.
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Re:The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Of... by sdenton4 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @07:01PM (#47329869)
to hazard a guess: the better your coding model is, the less you have to assess your fundamentals, and thereby suffer arrested development.
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Re:The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Of... by betenoire on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:33PM (#47340136)
I was thinking of our natural reluctance to adopt newer and better tools because of our comfort and expertise with old ones.

I know I should have experimented with LLMs sooner, but leaned into my instinctive "VIM has gotten me this far" attitude.

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