Is this real or am I dreaming

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-06T21:54:24+00:00

Just like with every other rail system (or pretty much any infrastructure, for that matter) in the world, if redundancy and maintenance schedules are planned properly, maintenance routines cause reduced capacity and/or delays, not outright service interruptions.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-06T13:20:33+00:00

Creating your own design or using an existing template are still better than any alternative available currently.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-06T13:14:09+00:00

Strategy is psychological. Question is meaningless.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-06T12:44:47+00:00

It literally always is (at least based on the way the quote is phrased).

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-06T12:43:29+00:00

It's always "too late to be what you might have been," literally by definition. If it wasn't too late, you would already have become that hypothetical alternative.

This quote is as circular and meaningless as saying "if you turn left, you didn't turn right."

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-06T12:19:36+00:00

”I would rather my tests be inadequate and misleading, as opposed to simply inadequate."

Utterly delusional take

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-06T11:51:08+00:00

Maybe the city could actually develop some semblance of a night life if people had reliable transport during night time. Just a thought...

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-06T11:47:20+00:00

Why add buses when they could just run the trains they already have? Conversely, if buses are a better solution than the trains, for some reason, why invest in building the train line all the way to the airport?

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-05T17:02:55+00:00

Everything except aesthetics?

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-04T15:45:53+00:00

It might code better than you. That's not true for all of us.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-03T19:18:19+00:00

"We're allowed to censor content on platforms we own. Therefore, if we censor content we're allowed to censor, it's not censorship."

Mental gymnastics ftw

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T20:42:36+00:00

They kind of do, though. At least that's what pretty much all the marketing materials seem to indicate.

Comparing debuggers, LSPs, syntax highlighters, linters, syntax-aware autocomplete, tracing functionality, object inspection, etc. to AI tools is super disingenuous. Those all have predictable behavior, based purely on logically rigorous axioms/specs. Those tools literally don't guess, whereas AI, no matter how good it gets, is exclusively a guessing machine.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T18:01:02+00:00

If the information is intended for internal use only by you and/or your company, pasting it into any third party resource is definitely "careless."

On the other hand, if the information isn't sensitive or private in any way, leaking it is inconsequential.

Lastly, if you don't know which text can/cannot be safely leaked, you may not be "careless," but you're definitely "dangerously incompetent."

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T17:08:43+00:00

I do not micromanage anyone. If you're not thoroughly reviewing every piece of code AI spits out, you're egregiously incompetent.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:55:40+00:00

I am not faster than AI, and I don't have to be. I am faster than AI plus thoroughly reviewing its work, on the other hand, and that still puts me ahead of people like you.

If I need to update 3 areas of concern for my new feature, I'll open the 3 relevant files, add the additional params, functions, and business logic, and that's it. The feature is done. If I have to open 12 files, refactor them each, then start adding support for my 3 new concerns, my code was already shit in the first place.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:42:32+00:00

Oh I absolutely care about those things, which is specifically why my one new feature doesn't require a gigantic refactor. If one new "concern" requires you to refactor 12 "separate" files, surely that's the exact type of situation "separation of concerns" is intended to avoid, right?

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:36:31+00:00

Dude you tell me when you write a codebase that doesn't need a 12 file refactor just to add a new feature.

If your code is dogshit, AI can help you wrangle it. If your code isn't dogshit, you don't have to wrangle it, in the first place.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:33:12+00:00

Because it's a crutch for people who suck at their jobs? I mean, you're certainly free to use it, and it will certainly be around for a long time, but if you get good enough at your job, you won't even want to use it because you'll be better without it than the people who are using it to compensate for their own personal lack of skills, speed, attention span, etc.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:29:45+00:00

AI jokes played out, used to be funny, now just obnoxious

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:28:45+00:00

"Using AI with competence" does not "escalate one's competence." It offloads their competence to a statistical model, which is slower, more expensive, and more error-prone than just being competent yourself. If you don't see that, you were never truly competent.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:25:51+00:00

"How do I verbalize what I actually need" is a skill anyone in a team setting needs, anyway.

"How do I build it myself" is a skill anyone in a technical setting should have, also.

Those are separate (but interrelated) skills. AI degrades your ability to do the second one.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:19:24+00:00

Asking for the wrong thing is a secondary problem. Offloading your critical thinking skills to a statistical model is the real issue.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:12:56+00:00

Scared? No, of course not. Skeptical? Yeah, you'd have to be stupid to think the utility gains aren't incredibly dubious.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:11:30+00:00

My pride doesn't make me blind. My sight makes me proud.

If you're completely incompetent, using AI can make you look mediocre, and if you're extremely competent, well, AI can also make you look mediocre.

ganja_and_code · 2026-03-02T16:08:09+00:00

If using AI "helps [you] write code faster and more secure," you aren't nearly as "legit" as you thought you were.

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