Are the admins officially letting this community exist, or have they just not responded about this? I realize it’d probably only been on their radar for hours, and the community is only 4 days old. But if they’re okay with this community, I’m going to be worried.

I hate it. I really enjoy programming, and don’t enjoy social niceties. And I definitely don’t enjoy someone looking over my shoulder all the time.

So that leads to 2 situations: I’m programming, but someone is looking over my shoulder and stopping me constantly (or doing nothing), or I’m watching someone else program and constantly frustrated that it’s not me.

Even during an emergency I’m often better off just doing my thing solo, and the other person using their own methods to investigate and fix the problem. Chat is still available to share information and progress without it being a constant annoyance.

The only thing I think it’s really good for is learning to program, and unless the people are the same level, it’s probably only good for 1 of them.

I think this is a well-intentioned but horrible idea. I’d much rather have a benevolent dictator who is willing to listen to suggestions than someone who is controlled by whatever majority of users is voting today.

I hated this when streaming services and cable providers did it, and I hate it here, too. I hope you get an answer to this.

I’ve used a few different flavors of Linux, and I now use a System76 with Pop OS for work, and I’m quite happy with it. I don’t feel any need to change to anything else.

I like the color of the first one, but the second one has a lot of atmosphere that the first doesn’t. Hopefully neither of them are final, or that’s just a bad screenshot for the second one.

I think there’s a bit of language confusion in the article there (‘search engine’ etc), but I’m very interested to see if they make Google allow other app stores to act like first-class citizens, instead of heavily restricting them, even if the user does everything they can to allow them to install and maintain apps.

As for Apple… I would probably have been an iPhone owner long ago if they weren’t so heavily restricted. I like their products, just not their refusal to allow apps that didn’t come from their store.

The current AI doesn’t produce working software on the first try. It has to be guided into it, and still requires a decent programmer to end up with a decent product at the end.

Even if the AI got it correct the first time, the initial prompt is unlikely to be correct, for multiple reasons.

This all means that AI can merely assists decent programmers, it can’t replace them. It can speed them up, even if only by taking a lot of the typing out of the equation. But it can’t replace them.

AI could theoretically reduce the number of programmers in a company, but my experience has been that the company has a budget for programmers, and that’s what they’ll pay for. I’ve never cleared my to-do list at work, and I can no longer imagine it actually happening, no matter how much help the computer gives me.

I remain unconcerned about AI taking programming jobs.