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  • I second this, although I’m mostly alone with git extensions in my workplace.

    I migrated to from sourcetree some years ago. At the time we had some big generated API client classes (imagine ~60k lines of code). They needed to be regenerated whenever we made changes and the diff on sourcetree was shitting the bed every time I needed to stage the damn files. It was just way too lagy, so I got fed up and moved.

    On my personal machine I prefer lazygit or just plain CLI.



  • Here I am just thinking I’m a better programmer without AI (LLMs).

    For me it’s just glorified autocomplete. I haven’t tried it in any real capacity, but my colleagues did and I’ve seen some examples. It’s all basic shit I already know. In no way I felt compelled or even seen anything really useful. It can give you a head start, but I already have the knowledge to have a head start.

    Some colleagues are using it for SQL, because they’re unfamiliar with it, and I’m like, it’s all good if it works for you, but you’re not gonna learn properly if you don’t try to write stuff yourself.

    This touches on another point I don’t see too often — I code because I like solving problems. If I outsource that, then what’s the point? And it’s exactly this that makes me a competent, and dare I say, good programmer.
    Another issue for me is this chat bot format. I don’t what a chat bot! If I have to go out of my way to try and coerce a fucking chat bot into being a useful tool then it already lost its usefulness. The only acceptable format for AI coding is better autocomplete, i. e. ability to autofill boilerplate more, better and, most importantly, as seamlessly as current solutions in modern IDEs.

    In general I don’t feel threatened by AI and when the tools catch up I’ll gladly use them or even retire and code just for fun.











  • Mr. Satan@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldSo true
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    If the intended reader is a regular person just use normal words, even if it’s not 100 % accurate.

    Jones exited the air lock in his space suit but the control system flagged an error with life support or water flow

    All three ways don’t mean much to me as an outsider, but the last one at least paints a somewhat understandable picture.