me: "What VSCode tools do you recommend for javascript development?"
chatGPT: "Well, to start, VSCode"
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it’s killing me to see so many people fall for this trick. it’s just reproducing structure! there is no meaning or understanding. it’s just recreations of text it’s been trained on, which, because the internet is massive and has a lot of human knowledge, will often happen to look like human knowledge. there was already so much Content that was basically regurgitated mush and LLMs are great mush generators but it is still just fucking mush
well, so they're actually quite good if you're very specific in your language and your pretexting (Establishing a subdomain, etc, in previous promptlines). I don't think I like it, but there's both some level of skill involved, and a lot of sculpting that has to happen, but for anything with a large body of literature on it (STEM is a big one, thanks to blogs??????? and stackoverflow and github i guess) you can get pretty accurate stuff with. I don't think that's a good thing though, as I do worry it'll lead to even further de-skilling in a way that mystifies hardware/systems-level programming even more, though. (I don't nec. think de-skilling is bad on it's own, but the like... high barrier to entry of new languages if glue coding becomes prompt coding is going to be something the current ed system is not prepared to pick up the pieces of)
this reminds me that with the way that company is going, intellisense is essentially on long-term maintenance already and probably on borrowed time in general. best case scenarios for this whole era are that autocomplete tools and ux will likely get worse overall because so few people are working on them