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dhh is the creator of Ruby on Rails. He has extensively used Mac for decades. A few months ago, as far as I remember, he mentioned something like switching to Windows and WSL.
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Chat gpt in his screenshot. What a hack.
It's the reality for many developers today.
Absolutely, you'd be dumb to not use the tools at your disposal
Back in my day i just used rivets we didnt need these new fangled screws and their drivers.
Yes I get what your saying, but in this analogy the screws are destroying the planet, and also hallucinate enough to be completely untrustworthy as fastenings.
I agree. The issue is people are not comparing this to a manual lookup. they are comparing it to another person who is just as likely to hallucinate/misremember things.
All sorts of actual devs also use AI tools to help them out. A good exame is ThePrimeagen who uses copilot
He doesn't anymore. I'm pretty sure he justified it by saying that it makes you slower because you end up with a habit of waiting for it to tell you the wrong answer.