let ret = someCondition ? expensiveOperation() : otherOperation() 

?

Well, I don’t know your use case well enough, but I guess you might have perfect reason for that behavior.

One thing that comes to my mind is the old Try in C#

bool parsedSuccessfully = int.TryParse("123", out int result);

But I guess more popular approach would be to use Error as Values, right?

E.g. something like this

Outcome<Exception, Int> result = int.TotallyNewParse("123");

To be honest I always disliked variable declaration without value assignment, so to me both options suck. :)

Wait until you learn about transducers (Are they in Go? If not natively, someone definitely ported them) and the abominations fp people code with them.

So… The medical professional is taking voice notes and then they get transcribed (ok, this is fine) - and then summarized automatically? I don’t think the summary is a good idea - it’s not a car factory, the MD should get to know my medical history, not just a summary of one.

Not really, no.

If you’re located in EU this could be a great case for DSA-based mediation. If you’re pissed maybe try reaching out to a DSA appointed mediator in your country?

Maybe it’s a language specific thing? In my native tongue March 23 sounds like a journal entry, not a normal date.

I get your point, but your comparison is a little… off. Wasn’t Gutenberg “printing”, not “writing”?

I stand corrected.

The AGI, by definition, will make something vastly better than diffusion model. That’s one of the cornerstones of AGI, it will explode it’s capabilities.

I think they did more - I vaguely remember them admitting they messed up the search result on purpose so the user will run more queries and will see even more ads.

Agi and image diffusion has literally nothing in common though?

Um… I’ve read the document, where does it say anything nefarious? All I can see is unifying requirements for metadata storage and time to live?

As in - to what exactly should I object, where’s the hidden poison?

There’s a vast difference between capability for empathy (as in: feeling someone else’s feelings) and acting upon that feeling.

What is this shit. Late night commercials?

First device is just an old fashioned walking machine (or whatever it’s called), marketed to elderly.

Second device is a voice activated doll on wheels.

Yeah, can’t find anything on dotnet getting poisoned by AI slop, so until you link it, I’ll assume you’re lying.

Everything from this

So we have conventions as we make enterprise software

to this

forget the file name now ).

Is a convention based code generation. It’s older than my tenure, so it’s older than 15 years. Having convention-based code generation is something that you do as a part of DRY rule, so somewhere after you’ve noticed that you’ve done it three times. The real boom for it was when the current hype that was supposed to get rid of programming jobs were no-code/low-code solutions.

Or I can write a comment like // Filtered clients

This is either reusable code composition or again convention based code generation.

The same for sorting things, sure I know how to sort arrays but why should I waste brain capacity on this when LLM is more than capable.

This is DRY. Create once sortBy(x=> x.name) and then import it whenever you need it.

. If I don’t know how to do something, like recently I need to integrate an app with Sage using Intracct SDK and I have no fucking idea, so I’ll get the LLM to show me how do I get Reporting Periods, Nominals, Transactions etc. then I’ll use what I learn in a console app to play around and work on getting and setting data. Then I’m ready to implement into the product.

Fair. POC is the only part where I could maybe see some gain in my use cases.

play around […] Then I’m ready to implement into the product.

Be cautious about this approach though. Usually just playing with the thing will make you a beginner with it, so usually it’s a good approach to read the documentation/manual and see where the bodies are buried.

My boss charges £2000-2500 an hour

First class grifter, respect.

Like many times I asked him stuff in passing and responses just blow me away and sometimes I just have to accept dude is way smarter than me and I’ll just never get certain concepts.

To me that’s a sign of a bad teacher. He might be a very good engineer, but not being able to tailor your responses to your junior - to me shows a lack of leadership skills.

Edit: if this is effort to read then I’ve added a reply to it with it fixed by an LLM to be more coherent and palatable

Bejesus, man, I’m not stupid, don’t feed me slop. I care about you, not about the translator dumbing you down to be a palatable to mediocre people.

Man, I wish LLMs were more useful to me than line completion tool we already had in normal languages in normal IDEs.

So far everything I’ve seen it do even with agentic approaches, is just not covering my use cases.

At best I can have it generate some correct-ish terraform boilerplate. Or writing mediocre code in languages I have to use once in blue moon, that I still then have to correct. Cursorrules are meh.

Me: fintech, 15y of exp.

On the other hand I can imagine it creating some bullshit boilerplate in companies that require bullshit boilerplate.

Btw I don’t think code throughput is what distinguished Junior from Dev. I rather think it’s realizing the steep decline in “Doner-Kebab” effect :)

My only gripe with your post is this

Today, the working class of the imperialist countries, what we may refer to as metropolitan labour,

I’m sorry, we have so many people in the capitals that are homeless or generally at a verge despite working. How are they labour aristocracy?