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New comment by elasticeel in "Grieving the loss of details"

elasticeel — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:46:06 +0000

Great sentiment about reserving intellectual heavy lifting to your personal life. I've always valued keeping enough in the tank for myself (and now my family) outside of work.

It seems in our profession there might be less satisfaction from work, but if it leaves me with more space to accomplish things in my own time, I think I prefer it.

New comment by elasticeel in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

elasticeel — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:12:58 +0000

Very well said. As someone who taught for 6 years it's hard enough to just stay on top of lesson planning, let alone opens my curriculum to incorporate a tool (LLMs) which I'm personally figuring out for my own use.

LLMs add the most utility to people who understand process and what a good result looks and feels like. To a novice they can't stunt the learning of this.

New comment by elasticeel in "AllInOneTools – Free, no-login tools that run in the browser"

elasticeel — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:15:08 +0000

Did you mean to link something?

New comment by elasticeel in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

elasticeel — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:31:15 +0000

Do they though? Our do they learn that having a good engineer means they can assign ambiguous tasks and the software developer can reason through good decision making and follow up with clarifying questions.

LLMs need to get better at asking clarifying questions and trying to show the initial solution might not work. Even when they get better at that, this article states that managers not capable of thinking through the answers well enough will fall short and this is the space that developers live in.