Do you think writing books (and Wikipedia articles, and stack overflow articles, and github repos, and, and, and, and ...) is not a value add?? What terrible claim.
One thing that has happened is that "AI" has been an academic discipline since literally the 1950s. The term was originally used in the hope that we would soon be able to emulate human minds. This turned out to be hard, but the name stuck to the discipline.
Now, suddenly, this name has been broadcast to every human in the world more or less. To them, it's a new term, and it obviously means something human mind-like. But to people who work on AI, that's not generally what it means. (Which isn't to say that some of them don't think we're near to achieving that; they just use other terms like "AGI" for that goal). So the name, which has a long history, is deceptive to people who aren't familiar with computer science.
I read commit messages all the time to figure out what a change was about.
For small personal projects I often write one phrase messages with `-m`, but if you're working with other people you should be writing good commit messages.
> People who care about code quality are not artists who want to paint on the company's dime. They are people who care about shipping a product deeply enough to make sure that doing so is a pleasant experience both for themselves and their colleagues, and also have the maturity to do a little bit more thinking today, so that next week they can make better decisions without thinking, so that they don't get called at 4 AM the night after launch for some emergency debugging of an issue that that really should have been impossible if it was properly designed.
Speak for yourself. This is exactly the GPs point. Some people care more about the craft of code than the output. I personally find writing good code to be what motivates me. Obviously its a spectrum; shipping is good too. But it's not why I get up in the morning.
None of my side projects are things where I want the output. They're all things where I want to write the code myself so I understand it better. AI is antithetical to this.
This comment is fascinating to me, as it indicates an entirely different mindset than mine. I'm much more interested in code readability and maintainabilty (and simplicty and elegance) than performance, unless it's necessary. So I would start by saying everything flows from rule 4 or maybe 5. Rule 1 is a consequence of rule 4 for me.
Why would you expect a reporter to magically know what a "unit test" is? Sounds like a simple miscommunication with one of his sources. Not perfect but not "brain rot".
Voting is a civil right. We need to have a system that allows everyone who is allowed to vote, to vote. Many people don't have IDs and it is an onerous process to get one. Any system that requires IDs for voting suppresses these people's civil rights.
> The manager at my structural engineers can still calculate a beam size, he is better at it than his staff.
That sounds insane to me. I want my manager to be good and managing. If they are writing code, it's a misuse of their time and skills. If they are good at writing code and bad at managing, they shouldn't be a manager.