hint: it's neither

if OTOH Fox News came out with this announcement, nobody would care except some of their viewers/readers would be annoyed by it.

point is it's hard to ever identify if a magazine would be doing this purely out of principle since it's also good marketing.

Yeah ....all frail and falling apart here.

Seriously,look at the age at which people run for president. We got a guy whose been living his best life by stealing from the US public in his late 70s. 50 is the new 30 after all

agree with this part of it. it's not a new thing that some technology dramatically changes a field, including software construction. in my lifetime, there were rooms of keypunch operators to program computers. then you had assemblers, then compilers, then IDEs, now this. admittedly LLMs are a bigger leap than all of those other things combined.

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/sarcasm

but making a decision about Python overall based on SQLAlchemy, wow I should be flattered that someone would think SQLAlchemy's has captured "Pythonic" so perfectly that we're the canonical example of it. But no, in Python, SQLAlchemy is definitely its own thing. You'd want to look at Django for pretty much the opposite take on everything (again, super awesome. people like django! great! you don't want to be my user, that's for sure!), all while staying well within Python's pretty amazing ecosystem and community.

(former IT support worker at a big famous law firm 30 years ago)

LOL, you're making the same mistake they did. thinking "index" means "too much time spent fetching the rows". read again - it's a FOR UPDATE so the entire table gets locked and other processes get totally blocked.

> Constantly having to argue with people’s reposting of Claude’s idea of what’s wrong has left me burned out.

It wasn't just claude's idea, it was my idea too, the claude topic was that it would write a suite that proves the problem, in this case, very loud logging messages that were occurring for the customer when this quasi-deadlock situation occurred. it was not subtle.

> In this case, it sounds like you could have made a ten line repro that shows the problem.

no, it involved running a galera server and about four other services with a specific set of data conditions, again, read what I wrote, creating a proof of concept suite was not trivial to do by hand.

AI takes away 90% of the anxiety about new issues coming in, and half the profession thinks we've lost our minds. Systems that always take me hours to get my head around, figure out a fix, LLMs understand the whole thing. I'm no longer the only person that knows how all this ORM code in SQLAlchemy works. Something else knows too. I can bounce ideas off it. It can bounce ideas off me. The relief is immense.

oh well, losing one's mind sure leaves me a lot more time to do other things and not stress about bugs which are now all entirely fixable, including ones that have evaded explanation for years. Features that used to be "OK, that would be a lot of effort and im not sure it's really worth it", that's over. We can do anything now.

AI seems to always reveal more about people than about machines. Like "how do we actually think? how does consciousness work?" and all that. It's also showing me, "other devs see a really different world than you do".