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@0xabad1dea as someone who does actually use AI coding tools for work AND has a CompE degree where I took a class on AI as a technical elective, idk how you would even fill up an entire course on prompt engineering. It’s just getting a statistical model to google stuff for you

This is like when I had a sales guy be shocked that I didn’t know how to do stuff with excel, like my guy in school I learned how to make the software not just use it

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It's the gambling the entire western worlds economic productivity along with all our natural resources and critical infrastructure that bothers me. If AI fails to kill us all the economic collapse due to AIs failure to meet investor expectations will kill us all.

@0xabad1dea “You empty hash bucket” is great. I’m totally stealing that one.

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Every now and then, we're treated to a spate of press decrying legacy admissions at the Ivys, and I just shake my head.

At least where the undergrad degrees are concerned, legacy admissions are almost the entire value proposition for the "normal" students.

Getting in to Harvard undergrad grants you entry into the legacy world where the Masters of the Universe, like this dipshit econ major, reside. It means you too can fail upward until you're a Ma$ter.

@0xabad1dea i always wondered how idiocracy began

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What a quicksort on an already sorted array

@0xabad1dea Of all the utterly useless bullshit degrees to get, economics is pretty close to the top. Of course someone studying absolute hogwash would say something like that. Economics is about as useful as weather reports were before satellites. Their models are so bad, they expect a pat on the back when they accurately predict the bleeding obvious more than 20% of the time.

@0xabad1dea Sounds like this person is one of the bubble sort.

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This comes really close to a question bubbling in my head recently: I, and every really good programmer I've ever known, got into this business because *we liked it*. I enjoy learning about these things. I find the act of writing code *fun*. When people asked me why I liked my job I enthused, "It's like being paid to solve logic puzzles!"

And they would shake their head in disbelief, because they didn't enjoy logic puzzles.

Vibe coding seems to me more like *work* than *fun*.

@0xabad1dea LLM needing an eng to be prompted aptly is in and by itself a good proof of why it's a fail.

@0xabad1dea why do astronomers waste time on useless theory like "orbital mechanics" and "general relativity" when they could be learning REAL skills like reading newspaper horoscopes

@0xabad1dea I used to complain about people insisting that universities teach skills rather than theory, because university is FOR theory. It’s not trade school. Now they’re insisting that we shouldn’t even teach skills?!? What the goddamn fuck?

@0xabad1dea Quite clearly not a quick sort

@0xabad1dea Who….who do they think is making their evil stochastic genie?

@0xabad1dea if i were an economist working as the CFO of a startup i would simply tell the programmers to make the database consistent, available, and partition tolerant at the same time. only rubes believe in things like the "cap theorem"

You circular reference. You denormalized database. You sparse-ass matrix. You fragmented fucking disk. You absolute BUBBLE sort. I can keep going because, you see, I actually have a real computer science degree

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How kind of this econ major to advise all the mistaken coders 🙄

@0xabad1dea One of the fundamental issues I have with "prompt engineering" is that it's literally the opposite of engineering, and I'm shocked more engineers don't say that.

Management and economics students are, by and large, parasites who deal in pseudoscience.

@0xabad1dea “Empty hash bucket” is awesome. Well, all the insults are, but I like that one in particular

@0xabad1dea this is like when they say art students should all be focusing on marketable skills like graphic design, as opposed to useless make-work intro classes on color theory and composition.