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do you not test your code?

yep and JBlow is a massive gatekeeper who discourages people from learning programming if he doesn't believe they can program the way he thinks a programmer should. He is absolutely running from any criticism that will hurt his enormous yet incredibly fragile ego.

WFH debuffs/nerfs an extrovert's primary weapon attribute (soft skills). this gives an implicit visibility bonus to introverts.

extroverts are not going to win this war

finding complex solutions to complex problems is easy. finding simple solutions is whats hard.

telling someone the path to happiness is through marriage and kids is probably the dumbest advice imaginable. its basically a coin flip on whether or not it ruins your life and the data supports this.

what's the niche? the authors described it as general-purpose

you seem to think "gpt4 is the best learning tool" means "gpt4 is the only tool that should be used in education". i literally said in my original reply that it should be used with other learning tools. your example is the perfect use case. the course is a great tool for providing an outline of what to learn. if i follow that outline with gpt4 im going to learn the concepts much faster than i would with a book, and since i'm learning them faster i will have more time (and motivation) to learn more concepts.

its not absurd at all. if i want to learn what an atom is, why on earth would i open a book when i can just have a hour long conversation with an AI that can explain the concepts to me at any level and answer my questions? as a learning tool, why is a book better?

no one made the claim that gpt4 is the only tool that should be used

ive accepted that most people will never understand this

if i had this when i was in school im certain i would have been an A student. my biggest hangup has always been fear of looking dumb, asking dumb questions, holding up the class to clarify things...gpt4 eliminates all these problems

gpt4 needs better marketing. its not perfect but its without a doubt the best learning tool humans have achieved. its better than books, wikipedia, libraries, etc. its basically your personal college professor with 24/7 office hours on practically any subject. using it in combination with other tools is the best approach, but this has always been the best approach for every learning tool.

why would you not use the best model because of their internal drama?

depends on how far into the weeds you get and the model you're using. gpt4 is pretty reliable at explaining concepts at a high level and its better at it than any textbook or wiki page can be because of its ability to answer follow-up questions in context. its basically the next best thing to a college professor's office hours.

i tried Goland (the Jetbrains IDE for Go) and when my mouse hovers over a variable the IDE does not provide a tool tip that tells me what its type is.

And for that reason I've stuck with VS Code.

due to lack of pay, resources, and support our public education system is filled with the bottom of the barrel teachers

A senior engineer should work in an organization that actually enables this type of engineering

CTRL + F the word passion in this thread

i agree, and its important that we understand what the tools were designed to do before we use them

its a misconception that single responsibility is about doing one thing. in fact the principle allows for a system to do many things, but the idea is that it should only serve a single actor.

it was one of the most popular and widespread occupations

damn you got some top shelf, high grade copium. let me get a hit

by technical specs you mean some kind of prompt mechanism, no?

can you name this company please?