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@nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social @jeffowski@mastodon.world @ariaflame@masto.ai @dogpile@dmv.community Remember when everyone stopped learning math because of calculators?

@AlexPlank@mastodon.social @drewharwell@mastodon.social this is exactly what musk was saying about the former management.

@darnell@one.darnell.one @steely_glint@chaos.social @randomwalker@mastodon.social There thing about OSS is having the choice. I like to follow lots of people with diverse views. A reverse chronological algorithm means people who post infrequently will likely be lost in the noise. I wouldn't mind an algorithm that added some weight to their posts so I see them.

@peterbutler@mas.to @nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social @jeffowski@mastodon.world @ariaflame@masto.ai @dogpile@dmv.community [citation needed] I disagree. I think people have always been bad at math and they're more accurate at it now because they have a good tool to do it for them.

@mike805@noc.social @nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social @jeffowski@mastodon.world @ariaflame@masto.ai @dogpile@dmv.community That was me in the '80s. I was always bad at math. Most people are. Even back then you'd have mistakes where a smug customer would say "Don't they teach math these days" (kids are always stupid "these days").

@ariaflame@masto.ai @nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social @dogpile@dmv.community @jeffowski@mastodon.world The code is good enough - and it's very good at summarizing bad documentation. It doesn't need to be perfect to be useful else humans would also be useless.

@sc_griffith@mathstodon.xyz But then how are you going to get the entire neighborhood to hate you?

@Lkdc Using an obnoxious pejorative for Americans while asking Americans to respond...

@MarkBignell@masto.ai @drewharwell@mastodon.social about *what* exactly? Twitter can ban whomever they like. This plays right into musk's narrative that "you were okay with former management banning conservatives".

@ariaflame@masto.ai @nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social @dogpile@dmv.community @jeffowski@mastodon.world No... "Bad documentation" isn't wrong, it's difficult to understand - or incomplete. It's then talked about on forums all over the internet. LLMs can combine all that together and tell you how to use that function you're looking at in the docs without needing to post in a forum, being given wrong advice by 4 different people, being told to re-do everything by that one guy who hates everything, etc. You just get an answer that's "probably helpful" really quickly. And if it's not then you fall back on the standard forums and all the shit you deal with there.

@nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social @peterbutler@mas.to @jeffowski@mastodon.world @ariaflame@masto.ai @dogpile@dmv.community You think humans will stop being creative?