I always thought of 9/11 as the major event for older millennials. I used to think it was all millennials, but many weren't even in kindergarten when it happened.
I figure from the context of the post they are asking sincere questions to their co-workers where they think their experience and knowledge is appropriate, but otherwise I agree that people should do a little legwork on their own before asking out loud.
The bigger issue I feel is knowing the medium for the question/help you need. If you need their experience and knowledge then talk to them. Email as a medium is already a wrong choice most of the time in these situations. Expecting them to give you the context that helps you grow from their experience in an email is placing a huge burden on them.
I can probably fix package manager issues by hand, and quickly with a little rubber ducking with the LLM itself. I'm not sure that's a huge problem in the grand scheme.
There's a lot of stuff in Python's favor in regard to coding with LLMs: its wildly popular so there's a lot of references for the right and wrong ways to use it, it can be typed using included libraries - its as simple as telling the LLM "use typing for this", and there are several great lint and unit testing tools to cover the hallucinations and poor decisions. The flexibility seems like an advantage to me personally, but I've always been a Python stan.
Why choose a significantly worse language when you are writing it in the same English either way.
It’s increasingly obvious that whole swaths of developers will just continue using the language they did before LLMs “just cause”
It’s more identity based at this point. My LLMs write Rust for me and I couldn’t tell you the difference outside of it being way faster and more reliable
For immediate term you should stick with what you know. I think that makes for much better prompting where you are coming in with experience with the language and the general style you'd like to see.
Rust is a language I would like to adopt longterm, but its not one I can easily grok and so my output would be worse for it.
I think that's fair, but I honestly can't tell you if I'm writing python or rust anymore. When I review I just ask Claude to add comments to all the code to make things clear as I review
Sure, and history deals the cards we're given and so on and so forth. Why don't we have referendums on keeping the US Constitution every year? That would be democratic as hell.
That is the way to do it. And IMO it should extend to all business communication. I hate getting "hey" in my DMs with no other context. Like...."hey? whats up?". Just get to the point, the day is too busy for this.
I always felt the implication of power was a lot more valuable to US interests than exercising it, cheaper too for that matter. And even very recent history revealed that with the greatest military strength ever seen, the US cannot achieve all of its desires through force.
I have a really tough time looking at the current situation and not seeing the USA knocked down at least several pegs. In regard to China, my read is they are gaining more power from this episode and allowing the US step on rakes than they would from a Taiwan invasion.
Not all power is measured in military might, that seems to be the mistake the Trump administration has made time and time again.
China imports oil from Iran and Venezuela. China's economy is not doing so hot because by being dependent on exports with less than ideal domestic consumption you wind up with, say, 17% youth unemployment.
You're reading the news and hearing about all the bad things about America because that's what everyone cares about talking about and what everyone knows the most about. Most people outside of China can't speak Mandarin, and don't read Chinese news - not that they report bad things that are going on, and so we have to rely on smaller samples of western media outlets.
If you have a perception that the US is knocked down several pegs (whatever that means) it's because you're consuming news that focuses squarely on criticism of the United States.
I read the news and make my own judgements based on events. I can read how the president has said we have reached a deal and threaten to destroy Iran over breaking the deal over the course of a day. And he's done that many times over in the span of the last 2 months. If I watched any other leader do that I would certainly be questioning their judgement and ability to lead and I would definitely question why their organization hasn't ousted them.
I don't think that was my impression, but their API is pretty open for creating plugins. In support of the Obsidian model, its a dedicated engineering team, a free tool, notes are stored as .md and not something proprietary, and if you want you can pay them for their sync tool which I find both pretty reasonable and a nice way to support their efforts. Also they keep on improving the product in interesting ways, the new plugin marketplace with all of its verification policies is really nicely done, aspirational even.
But in any case, this is also a nice project, but I guess I'm also an Obsidian evangelist.
People in the US have been bemoaning the ceding of power of Congress to the Executive branch for a long time. I think what's happening now is validating that rights laws are all subject to the whims of the people in power. There is nothing keeping Congress from reasserting their power and getting a grip over things, but they won't for the political risks involved. Heads would roll, nobody wants to be one of them.
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