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> "We're moving towards this 'one true answer' world. Before, Google would give you 10 blue links and you would kind of do your own research. But AI just gives you one answer. It becomes so easy to just take things at face value. You need to be careful."

In a world of insecurities, and a world where we crave out-facting or out-proving our fellow discussioners, this “one right answer” is like synthetic drugs to the social experience. And we suspect “it’s not good for us” but it’s just so damned addictive.

I work with two pretty green developers. The rate that they can make a mess is now phenomenal. And the sense of confidence the tools give them with early successes, means any experience I might have to offer means less now. Which is ok, I’m not going to be that “my experience has to be useful to you so I still fell relevant” old guy. But I do find myself curious how “lessons are learned” that lead to greater and greater tool exploitation in this brave new world.

No. Way. It's. Going. To. Ever. Get. Stopped.

The only way to level the effects are to radically increase the surveillance so that everyone ends up in a Dark Forest "I know shit about you too" deterrence stand off. And/or flood the sensors with so much input/noise that meaningful signal is tough to suss out.

Probably where the mismatch is in this discussion. The measure of what is quality code is all over the place. For some, some form of "good enough" is quality. And for others, metrics like terseness, readability, vacuous amounts of comments, cleverness, various fuzzy measures of "idiomatic", etc, make "quality code" much more of a moving target.

All satire aside... this is pretty cool. And so are groups that look out for the little guy.

I’ve used AI tools to do i18n translations to Spanish and Portuguese (somewhat ashamed to admit this). I’ve grown more familiar with the structure of these languages, and come to recognize some of the common vocabulary for our agtech domain. If anything, I feel more clueless about both languages now than I did before, when it comes to any sort of proficiency.

But just a few inches earlier, the author stated:

> Everything tools always turn into crap.

This seems like a contradiction to me.

I use it for Elixir and ansible stuff. I may eventually be open to using it instead of PyCharm for python and/or Nova for C.

If there's one area I still feel that Zed lets me down is in pane management. Maybe I need to just learn more key shortcuts. But I spend a bit of time "managing" the secondary panes and having to switch back and forth between outline, files, search. I'm not sure what the solution is. Just wish the secondary panes weren't a scarce resource that had to be mux'ed betwixt.

I really like(d) the agent integration, but we're currently experimenting with Claude Code Desktop, and I really miss not having the tight integration. My guess is that I'm going to switch back to using the Pro subsidized version. I was getting by with ~$40-$50 a month. Now the company is paying $125 for Claude Team premium seat, and it's a lesser experience.

I try to fly about once a week, I’ve never really tried to self analyze what my inputs are for what I do. My hunch is that there’s quite a bit of I(ntegral) damping I do to avoid over correcting, but also quite a bit of D(erivative) adjustments I do, especially on approach, in order to “skate to the puck”. Density going to have to take it up with some flight buddies. OR maybe those with drone software control loop experience can weigh in?

HARD AGREE. But…

Taken as just such, one might conclude that we should spend less time writing software and more time in design or planning or requirement gathering or spec generating.

What I’ve learned is that the painful process of discovery usually requires a large contribution of doing.

A wise early mentor in my career told me “it usually takes around three times to get it right”. I’ve always taken that as “get failing” and “be willing to burn the disk packs” [https://wiki.c2.com/?BurnTheDiskpacks]

Fun challenge. Unlike the author, I have nothing really to add.

I just wanted to say that "I did NOT write it with ..."

Would like to move something we could all share and willing to burn through a little more money, but not wanting to break any banks. API or subscription? Just curious what others have found as they've wandered the chaos that is paying for this stuff.

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