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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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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

dhh is also an insufferable prick, sucks off Elon, and Rails was garbage under his stewardship

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Chat gpt in his screenshot. What a hack.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's the reality for many developers today.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Absolutely, you'd be dumb to not use the tools at your disposal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Back in my day i just used rivets we didnt need these new fangled screws and their drivers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

All sorts of actual devs also use AI tools to help them out. A good exame is ThePrimeagen who uses copilot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.