Empathy [he/him]

I want to add that, like you, I’ve become a big fan of restricting the numbers of ways to do something.

IMO, It’s more time wasted choosing, more time wasted reviewing, and makes it easier to overlook errors. I want more opinionated languages and frameworks.

I think your comment embodies Rust more than any I’ve seen before

I use main because, although I never heard of anybody actually getting offended by master, it costs me nothing to use main instead. Also it looks prettier and seems to be the new convention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ironically, the best way I found to combat this is to use search engines that summarize result pages with AI (e.g., Bing Copilot or Perplexity).

It still sucks even with those options, but it at-least reduces the need to go through several pages of results before finding the first relevant one. Still, the LLMs of those engines hallucinate regularly and give very naive answers, so they’re mostly useful for finding relevant sources IMO.

Disclaimer: I pay for Perplexity. I use Perplexity every day but I haven’t tried Bing Copilot that much. I haven’t used ChatGPT much, I find it way too unreliable, I can’t trust its answers. I’m not an investor nor employee of either.

Had bad vibes since the first time I heard of him, and I’m usually the biggest fan of new technology in the room. He’s always given me the impression that he’s driven purely by ego, anything else seems to me like a side effect.

Co-pilot can write some small very simple functions for me, sometimes saving me the need to look at documentation. It will still often fail at those, in my experience, and will consistently fail at anything more complex.

It will get better, but currently it’s only a small help.