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I have full time Linux users on my team. I fix their code all day and go home to use all 3 osโs.
Using Linux means you like tinkering, not that your smarter or more capable.
In my case, I used Linux because I didn't like being spied on. I also didn't like ads and I hated my settings being reverted after Windows updates. Fuck Windows. It's an OS that doesn't understand consent.
I've been using linus for like 27 years or so, but I don't think I've been tinkering with my desktop for 20 years. Tinkering with my servers of course.
New honeypot just dropped?!
Has he been using Finnish or Canadian Linus?
Do you have ethical stock of the canadian one? Or is it all day old?
Yes :DG<
I am a full time Linux user and nobody fixes my code ever, can you explain this?
Iโm sure sometimes your code needs fixing.
But this whole thread is a bait. zzzzzzz
Is this sarcasm? God damn I was a bit riled.
In the case that Iโm actually not understanding your confusion, Iโm a Staff engineer for 15 or so devs. Everyone makes mistakes (myself included) and everyone is fluent on nix systems.
But Iโm running Colima and podman on osx because itโs a vastly easier os to use in a work environment. Iโd choose windows + wsl over native desktop nix. And it has nothing to do with my capabilities.
Iโm a linux user, can you please fix my code?
I'm an Ubuntu user and don't give a shit about tinkering or being smart. I just like that it's faster than Microsoft and isn't Microsoft. Also when windows needs to update it's a whole thing. Fuck a whole thing. Apple products are also stupid.
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The question the OOP is getting at isn't about being smarter or more capable. It's about knowing how to probem solve, which is itself about feeling like it's ok to tinker.
Liking to tinker things is somewhat correlated to being more capable or even smarter, though; I mean, you can't tinker if you're not capable and/or don't know how to do it.
With LLMs you can theoretically tinker, but in my experience, 90% of the output will be hallucinated.
Can you fix a carb? Or replace your fuel injector? What about build a small table for your home? Run a Cnc? Maybe you donโt tinker enough then.
Your hobby makes you more capable in your hobby.
And your take and experience on llmโs is trash. The models are excellent coders and simply need context. There are only a few specific domains where they donโt produce excellent code. They arenโt going away in tech. There will be a middle ground where they are used.
https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware/src/branch/main/why_not_llms.md