Gregory's Server@hrefna we've found ChatGPT helpful, yes, we know, in figuring out golang withot fighting with tutorial sites. We're like, ok, show us how to do this. And from that, we can see how it does the thing and do the thing ourself like
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 @hrefna right! And like tutorial sites are like, here is this simplified thing that you don't want to learn. We learn best by seeing how others do it. Sidenote: good gods software *engineers* are scary. build systems and test cases and dependency management and release tagging and shit, where we're from you're lucky if you get a `cc -o dothething -I./src/common -I./src/thinglib thinglib_core.c thinglib_tui.c dothething.c dothething_plugins.c` @hrefna we're a software hacker in the 1980s unix sense. It plays right hell with our atempt to get a job, too |
@12 I actually like the AI tools for this sort of thing, personally. Sometimes they can help illustrate something that is difficult to see otherwise.
I've used bard to learn cypher and a few other things like that because while its coding is atrocious it can often help with the things no one talks about.