The funny thing is that it wasn't even a good book.

After the rebuild movies I was prepared to be against any more eva, but with yoko taro involved? I can't imagine anyone better

Also duckdb. Realizing I could do SELECT ... FROM 'arbitrary-file.xlsx' was a wondrous occasion

verify with every output it produces.

I agree that you can get quality output using these tools, but if you actually take the time to validate and fix everything they've output then you spend more time than if you'd just written it, rob yourself of experience, and melt glaciers for no reason in the process.

prompt to restrict it from auto committing, auto pushing, and auto editing without explicit verification

Anything in the prompt is a suggestion, not a restriction. You are correct you should restrict those actions, but it must be done outside of the chatbot layer. This is part of the problem with this stuff. People using it don't understand what it is or how it works at all and are being ridiculously irresponsible.

repetitive sections

Repetitive sections that are logic can be factored down and should be for maintainability. Those that can't be can be written with tons of methods. A list of words can be expanded into whatever repetitive boilerplate with sed, awk, a python script etc and you'll know nothing was hallucinated because it was deterministic in the first place.

user tests.

Tests are just as important as the rest of the code and should be given the same amount of attention instead of being treated as fine as long as you check the box.

Hacker news is not a news outlet. It is a forum/aggregator

Well, we endure extreme societal pressure to avoid lifting weights

Is this actually true? Like half the women I know lift and gymfluencers is a huge thing

That they don't know how it works is a lie. The mysticism and anthropomorphization is purposeful marketing. Pretending they don't know how it works also lets them pretend that the fact they constantly lie is something that can be fixed rather than a fundamental aspect of the technology

I see this as an absolute win

Studios can make whatever they want. People aren't putting in orders.

I never used npp as my code editor but as a secondary program that i kept notes in and would paste text in to manipulate then move back into code editor. It had a rich plugin ecosystem way before that was common. I use Kate for those purposes instead now

You're absolutely right and it's insane I keep coming across these wild takes from people that clearly don't understand technology

No, but letting perfect be the enemy of improvement is counter productive. Maybe that's a chance to introduce someone to some recipes that could scratch the itch that cheese and bacon do, or connect with them and potentially form a bridge for them to walk instead of meeting them with open hostility?