Oct 29, 2026, 9:24 PM@hko Ah. I'd still guess people can, in fact, benefit in terms of both quantity and quality, if they so chose to play the devil's keyboard.
But probably not 100x or even 10x.
And yes, I very much wish this wasn't true.
- Oct 29, 2026, 9:24 PM
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Oct 29, 2026, 9:29 PM@larsmb Today's FSFE presentation made me once again wonder about the extremely wide gap between some people clearly being very excited to engage with code generation, and my own sense that I'm a) extremely disinterested in getting mixed up with the ethics of these things, but also b) wondering which parts of my own code-typing experience could possibly be sped up at all (without losing the core product, which to me is gaining some understanding of what I actually wanted to ask the computer for)
- Oct 29, 2026, 9:53 PM
@hko Ah, I missed you were on it (I joined remotely and was hiking while listening 🙂)!
I didn't really want to engage either. But when I had to, I found them useful.
I think this aspect may be the almost proverbial "build vs understand", "scientist vs engineer" etc split?
I'd never casually use it for something I want/need to fully understand. But that doesn't describe all my problems. For some, understanding (even a subset of) the constraints can be sufficient for them to be "solved".