And why students of all people shouldn’t be using it.

IMO proprietary code has this same risk.

I have non FOSS projects that my company writes / sells (I’ve written these for over 20 years, but only owned them for 3, and opening the existing source is complicated as it’s tangled deeply with non OSS projects).

I don’t allow LLM generated code in our products either, since I have to assume that most of training was done on public repos, and there’s no way to know what licenses existed on that code (in addition to all of the other valid arguments to not use that shit).

Repetition is key here. And solving problems.

I started many years ago with a “for beginners” book, and didn’t fully understand a lot of it by the end.

So I started trying to build something, and searched for answers to the things I couldn’t figure out (and went back to the book numerous times). I don’t think I ever finished that project, but by persisting through it, and figuring out how to solve the problems that I ran into, I learned how to build something, and it stuck.

Currently using UptimeRobot, but have used a few different products over the years.

All of this, and the facts that the entire thing was trained on stolen material, and the companies behind it are all run by bat shit crazy shitheads.

Everyone loves to shit on US tech companies, hates Windows and MS, and Amazon, Google, Apple, and Meta (all rightfully so), but is absolutely willing to overlook the AI companies that are arguably doing more harm than those others combined (or are tightly invested / integrated with them, or are them) just so they don’t have to spend a few minutes typing, or thinking about how something works.

Another article trying to solve the problems of using AI in development with better specs or better prompts instead of just writing the fucking code.

Been writing the same software for 20+ years now, don’t even need git blame to figure out what asshole wrote this shit.

It absolutely is something you can influence.

That’s the entire point. You can not use the slop machine.

Going to start doing this to the QuickBooks online one that shows up automatically every time I log in.

Was just asking it for recipes, spamming it with random text, asking how to embezzle, or why the Intuit management was so incompetent and evil, until it told me I was out of tokens for the month and tried to get me to buy more.

They just forgot to include “no bugs” in the prompt.

Had the same thing happen on one of my servers. Got up one day a few weeks ago and the server was suspended (luckily the hosting provider unsuspended it for me quickly).

It’s mostly business sites, but we do have an old personal blog on there with a lot of travel pictures on it, and 4 or 5 AI bots were just pounding it. Went from 300GB per month average to 5TB on August, and 10/11 TB in September and October.

It’s an Expression-Bodied Member (available since C#6). The expression (=>) is just syntactic sugar that the compiler recognizes as a single line property with only a getter (under the hood both versions compile the same).

Had a tech drive an hour and half to a site where the onsite staff couldn’t get a server to boot last week.

Somewhere between scheduling and actually driving down (half a day later), someone came to work that understood how the power button works, but didn’t bother to let anyone know that it was already booted back up and working.

Xcode seems to get worse with each release.

The really basic things that it’s missing are frustrating too, like bookmarks. This has been a feature of every other IDE I’ve used since '98 when I started programing in VB6.

A few versions ago they removed the ability to tear a tab out of the IDE to have it open separately.