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[–] crozilla@lemmy.world 86 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Forgot “Microsoft Word”

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Forgot “Microsoft ~~Word~~ office”

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry, do you mean Microsoft Copilot 365?

gags

[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft Office Suite, it sounds classier

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 16 points 11 months ago

Spreadsheet Architect, Powerpoint Guru, Wordsmith

[–] Kache@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

Classier than listing every program individually?

[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Eliminating orphans is an essential skill in IT.

[–] Gyroplast@pawb.social 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More essential IT skills to add to your resume:

  • preserving the environment
  • killing zombies
  • managing real-time executions
  • manual flushing of pipes
  • handling mixed signals
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

manual flushing of pipes

Seriously, pipes should default to unbuffered...

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You mean Copilot. No one uses word manually anymore.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Copilot? Write me a terse reply to the highlighted comment.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

This is actually scary. They cant do anything without an internet connection.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, programming without internet is just (very) unproductive.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tell me you're not a programmer without telling me you're not a programmer.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I got almost 3 decades of writing software for money. I don't need stack chatgpt overflow. I know some standard libraries by heart.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Guess you just "know" all the new stuff coming out?

I programmed for a living before stack overflow, and it was just less effective.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can download docs once and refer to them pretty much. You can also download dependencies once and read their source code to figure out questions you may have.

Like, sure, I need the internet to download new packages and tools and their documentation and stuff. I will concede this. But after that, I can live off the land.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Sure you can and we all had to live without nice things at a certain time, I had the Nintendo DS & Wii doc in physical text form (because NDA and so I guess), with only a handful of helpful people on the Nintendo forum. But that was invaluable, still remember that guy from Team17 helping me out because the audio was bugged in the console.

I mean we can all motor through it and spend lots of time figuring it out, I actually like that 😁, but having access to the whole worlds shared knowledge is kind of nice too.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have a mild existential crisis every time the Internet goes down. I have no idea what's wrong, and I cant use the Internet to find out what's wrong.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

You should work to become sufficient offline. I have my whole life because I know how fragile it is.

[–] Fizz 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not really. If the internet goes out in our office 100% of our programmers are going home. Doesnt make them bad, the internet is to useful to work without.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah I'm kinda helpless if I can't get maven packages or check packages against the CVE database.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

the documentation is literally on Internet. Python standard library, MSDN, posgresql, odbc drivers. Everything is online. are you suggesting you memorised your whole stack, and did you printed out ? Granted * some * of it can be downloaded

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I remember when ‚man 3 printf‘ and such was a thing. Good times, those. Then there’s ‚go doc encoding/json‘ as well. I’m sure other languages have some offline docs

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

ChatGPT

Cybersecurity

So you know how to fix all the security holes the AI left in your codebase, right? Right?

[–] QuestionMark@lemmy.ml 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No worries, GPT says my* code is flawless.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did someone crop off DevOps?

[–] QuestionMark@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Generative AI AND chatGPT. Impressive.

But I know how to code, program, AND write software.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But don’t have a development podcast?

[–] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Damn, you're right! I need to let people know that in addition to my other skills, I can also develop applications.

Chatgpt how do I pod my cast

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

So this whole list is actually

ChatGPT

How to ask ChatGPT how to:

Coding

Computer Science ....

[–] handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He forgot to list his Minecraft server

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Hey, maintaining that server is a 24/7 job after the last update. There are dozens of people depending on me.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Generative AI degenerating skills.

[–] paulbg@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

majoring in chatgpt💀

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

wait, just ChatGPT? not llama, gemma, or even gemini or copilot?