I've been seeing an alarming pattern in OSS GitHub communities lately: people just scraping issues, pinging maintainers with urgency to get the issues assigned to them and producing PRs (mostly through coding agents) within minutes of maintainers agreeing to assign the issue.
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“it explained everything so confidently, nobody questioned it”
literally “so confident” is a red flag.
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More conferences are adapting the silent headphones stages
I welcome this trend 😏
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MCP is about to do to user experiences, what API did in the 2010s
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MCP will become a standard within the next year.
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Exactly. It’s having the opportunity there to help which is powerful
I think you're both generally right from my experience. I think we are doing a disservice to juniors by telling them not to learn how to use it. The reality is, it is almost impossible to find a job right now if you don't accessorize your CV with it. I also think it is destroying our pipeline of
Can't code?
I'd say ask a friend, but at the rate AI is improving, maybe you won't even need to. Someone built a functional Appview with replit overnight.
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I understand that you have a position on it and I can respect someone that has a position on a subject based on research that they’ve collected. Ultimately, we are all able to change our opinion in the future based on what we experience in the void, which is what make human intelligence soo great 😃
FWIW. I got to stennis because of that first boss 😆. She started on punch cards and made me do it too.
Things that junior devs usually focus on.
The big projects are still human driven. But I do at times write my discrete math into the AI to get a sanity check and it helps, to do then say “now convert this into a Boolean equation for my statement”
Did it help me, yes. Did she also make me write much assembly to earn her respect, also yes. Did me knowing how to use an IDE make me any less of an engineer, no.
So I think, while you can argue it’s hype, it does have some small productivity boosts, like scaffolding and small tests
We’re getting back into nuanced territory tho. I can use a personal example again
When I first came into industry, IDE experience was a requirement
My first boss told me “I don’t respect you because you don’t really understand how to code since the computer helps you now”
To her point…
We must show excitement from a senior level. If not, we can resist, but they’ll go elsewhere and ultimately that’ll only hurt the most vulnerable (entry and person of color).
This was just my experience and why now I’m heavy on “adapt. Adapt. Adapt. Or we will miss out”.
To shape what’s coming next. As I talk to many employers about what they need from new hires, AI isn’t even a negotiation now, it’s a requirement.
That coupled with academia, I had to put my personal grievances aside and just understand that if we want the future to get excited and participate,
The “why” is greater than the “you” here. Again, I resisted AI until Nov 2024 when I went to UC Berkeley to learn more. I left that visit with my eyes wide open because of what they’re doing on the academic side for the world with it. What we get B2C isn’t as advance yet (per usual) but it’s going
