> I find these days I prefer to write using a cheap mechanical pencil
I know this is contrary to your advice but mechanical pencil, get a Kuru Toga, it's a really nice improvement and not very expensive. It auto-rotates the pencil tip, so you don't have the sharp end at some point.
For permanent writing get a Uni ball gel writer, it's supremely smooth to write with. Also not hugely expensive.
They're both not the cheapest option, but an amazing writing experience without being the fancy kind of expensive.
So it's not just me. I'm glad, I feel weird that I have to save links to every Google doc and every internal confluence page because there's no proper search across these.
Especially in a filesystem I know where I placed something, but not always the title, so even if the search function was ok, which it mostly isn't, having to know the wording used for the title is really inconvenient.
At least codex listens to me telling it to use rg instead of grep, cause grep is often so slow. But when adding rtk it uses grep through rtk which is kind of annoying.
>teaching functional programming to people trained in OO: Some people's model just breaks, while others quickly see the similarities, and how one can translate from a world of vars to a world of monads with relative ease.
Besides OO -> Functional this applies everywhere else in Computer Science. If you understood the fundamentals no new framework, language or paradigm can shock you. The similarities are clear once you have a fitting world model.
What were your syntax stumbling blocks? I must be honest I've used jq enough but can never remember the syntax. It's one of the worst things about jq IMO (not the speed, even though I'm a fan of speedups). There's something ungrokkable about that syntax for me.
Replying here because the other comment is too deeply nested to reply.
Even if it's once off, some people handle a lot of once-offs, that's exactly where you need good CLI tooling to support it.
Sure jq isn't exactly super slow, but I also have avoided it in pipelines where I just need faster throughput.
rg was insanely useful in a project I once got where they had about 5GB of source files, a lot of them auto-generated. And you needed to find stuff in there. People were using Notepad++ and waiting minutes for a query to find something in the haystack. rg returned results in seconds.
In Germany I'd say you still make more with white collar, if you have a job. The problem for Gen Z though, is that they aren't hiring for junior positions.
Still if you go blue collar you have to build your own business.
Nice. My test was always a blond bald guy. It always adds hair. If you ask for bald you get a dark haired bald guy, if you add blond, you can't get bald because I guess saying the hair color implies hair (on the head), while you may just want blonde eyebrows and/or blond stubble.
Not unlikely that you're talking to a lot of AI-based AI boosters. It's easier to create astroturfed comments with chatbots than fixing the inherent problems.
I'd add to this, any moderately involved logical or numerical problem causes hallucinations for me on all frontier models.
If you ask them in isolation they may write a script to solve it "properly", but I guess this is because they added enough of these to the training set. But this workaround doesn't scale.
As soon as I give the LLM a proper problem and a small part of it requires numeric reasoning, it almost always hallucinates something and doesn't solve it with a script.
If the logic/math is part of a larger problem the miss rate is near 100%.
LLMs have massive amounts of knowledge, encoded in verbal intelligence, but their logic intelligence is well below even average human intelligence.
If you look at how they work (tokenization and embeddings) it's clear that transformers will not solve the issue. The escape hatches only work very unreliably.
I know this is contrary to your advice but mechanical pencil, get a Kuru Toga, it's a really nice improvement and not very expensive. It auto-rotates the pencil tip, so you don't have the sharp end at some point.
For permanent writing get a Uni ball gel writer, it's supremely smooth to write with. Also not hugely expensive.
They're both not the cheapest option, but an amazing writing experience without being the fancy kind of expensive.