 you know what, i don't even care how good AI is at coding. if the literal ghost of Donald fucking Knuth showed up at my desk and started typing my code for me, i'd tell him to fuck off back to his grave. It's *my* code and *I* want to do the coding. [update] i have been informed that Donald Knuth is, in fact, still alive 19 comments
@patrick oh shit, i shoulda checked that lol, i'm sure i remember him dying. this happens sometimes. maybe i switched universes again @mrsbeanbag @patrick for a minute there I thought this was the weirdest way I could've found out he died  @mrsbeanbag @kattrali @patrick we lost a few of the old guard in the last "few" years, you might have been thinking of Denis Ritchie, or even E.W Dijkstra (closer in kind, but died longer ago). edit: typo in Dijkstra, shame, shame.   @mrsbeanbag Thanks for the edit. I almost reply-guy'd you with that fact, but then I was thinking... If his ghost were to visit you, then he'd have to have died in the mean time, which would make your original message correct again. Also, I try to practice resisting the urge to reply to everything. Which I failed at right now. Anyway, I agree with your message about AI and like how you wrote it. @dtanzer Thank you for your reply. I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours. @mrsbeanbag Mm, yes, pair-programming with the future ghost of Donald Knuth... :neocat_woozy:  @mrsbeanbag tbh I'd probably try to delegate some stuff if that would happen, specially math bits, but definitely a strong "Shoo, go away" for the bits I want to do.
@mrsbeanbag You nearly ruined my day 😥 . I also had to check that Donald Knuth is still alive 😀 .  @mrsbeanbag oi he's not dead yet (or he is, but he's still typing in last volumes of The Art of Computer Programming, so he hasn't been declared dead). @mrsbeanbag |
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@mrsbeanbag full ack!