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  • It’s interesting. There’s a lot of talk about how chatgpt makes people lazy, but honestly I think Google killed the “read the manual” ethos.

    Back in the day when you couldn’t just search for everything, you needed enough understanding of the manual to find anything in the index.

    So a key part of figuring anything out was reading at least the start of the manual.

    Now, fuck it, you just type into Google and try to guess enough context to understand what’s going on.



  • You absolutely can’t use LLMs for anything big unless you learn to code.

    Think of an LLM as a particularly shit builder. You give them a small job and maybe 70% of the time they’ll give you something that works. But it’s often not up to spec, so even if it kinda works you’ll have to tell them to correct it or fix it yourself.

    The bigger the job is and the more complex the more ways they have to fuck it up. This means in order to use them, you have to break the problem down into small sub tasks, and check that the code is good enough for each one.

    Can they be useful? Sometimes yes, it’s quicker to have an AI write code than for you to do it yourself, and if you want something very standard it will probably get it right or almost right.

    But you can’t just say ‘write me an app’ and expect it to be useable.












  • It’s literally in the clinical name.

    https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/autism-spectrum-disorders-asd

    Broadly there’s two important reasons for why it’s called this, when it used to be either Asperger’s or autism.

    1. Asperger was a Nazi and actively involved in the state sanctioned murder of autistic children.
    2. Medically it’s a bit dumb. There’s no neat dividing line between people with Asperger’s and people with autism, and giving people that could be diagnosed either way as autistic or having Asperger’s, different diagnoses changed their access to support.

    So it’s called a spectrum to recognize that there’s a wide range of symptoms and not everyone presents in the same way or requires the same support.



  • Because if a website doesn’t work in your browser, but it works in everyone else’s, no one will say “oh that website’s badly written”, instead they say “what a shitty browser”.

    So you have a huge web standard you have to respect, and then all the websites with non standard code you have to make work anyway.