It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
Using it for the sometimes spot on cakewalk segments is a fairly productive win.
One thing that absolutely blows my mind is how many people will say how much time it saves then with repetitive or boilerplate code. It is obvious these people have never actually tried to optimize their workflow even a little bit before. Regex replace, snippets, and keyboard macros have existed in text editors forever and are actually deterministic.
And even better, that can be done entirely deterministicly, and once written, free to use! Instead of fixing the root cause they’re using the ultimate hammer. It’s such a cognitive surrender and a complete moral sellout.
As little as possible of my work is boilerplate, but some times there will be something like “I want to take width,height, and depth as arguments from the command as variables”, and poof, all the argv tedium is done.
One thing that absolutely blows my mind is how many people will say how much time it saves then with repetitive or boilerplate code. It is obvious these people have never actually tried to optimize their workflow even a little bit before. Regex replace, snippets, and keyboard macros have existed in text editors forever and are actually deterministic.
And even better, that can be done entirely deterministicly, and once written, free to use! Instead of fixing the root cause they’re using the ultimate hammer. It’s such a cognitive surrender and a complete moral sellout.
As little as possible of my work is boilerplate, but some times there will be something like “I want to take width,height, and depth as arguments from the command as variables”, and poof, all the argv tedium is done.