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That was the best part, it was like no humans were in the building for a bit there.

There was a human reply at the end:

I've just taken all the pkg pages down. pkgx is about running pkgs, we put up the pkg pages as a bonus for our users to help them. We chose AI generation to give us more time to work on the tool because that's what we care about.

They don’t matter to our mission and honestly we’re a little confused about this reaction. We respect your opinions and are sorry we upset so many by using AI.

Can't say I hugely love that reaction from the dev

Github is going to hell lol

I assume that's so others can more easily downvote it. This was common on discord bots too, it's just an easy select menu.

What happened there?

I remember that from ages ago. It was very, very cringe-worthy. I think it's the fault of whatever shit bootcamp he attended to learn his 'craft' for using imperative languages to teach DSA, if they taught him DSA at all? That is why in real universities they mostly teach DSA with functional languages. I studied 'programming' (not CS, 'programming') in a college which by American standards would be considered 'junior', for 3 semesters, and they, too, did not touch on functional languages. It was not until I had dropped out that I learned how to do FP using SML, Ocaml, Haskell, Scheme etc. That was when I 'understood' DSA for real.

Truly, this person is an embarrassment. I am currently working on an implementation of Appel et al's ASDL (github.com/Chubek/ZephyrASDL, check the new_version branch!) and it now emits decent C code, so it is time to write the man page (it currently has a sucky one) and the TextInfo. I COULD potentially have ChatGPT make both, it is very decent at doing so. But see, I am not a moron. So I use write them in Markdown and have Pandoc make the final markups.

Truth is, if you know your tools, if you know how to use a DSL-driven approach to programming, you won't need to use AI to generate your code. You don't need to go to Harvard to know DSA, neither a junior college like mine. Just grab CSLR and read it on your spare time!

I think this person is the guy behind Homebrew. I don't know why he thought Homebrew is an accomplishment that would give him immunity from knowing basic DSA --- which in real world, is what programming is about. Package managers have existed since the dawn of time. Linux has like dozens of package managers. His package manager being 'unique' on MacOS does not mean it's an accomplishment, it means MacOS sucks cocks!

Basically, when you start a project, think: can I turn this project into a paper? If you can't, then it's worthless. He could have just strapped Pacman to be built on MacOS and called it a day!

These days, employers are looking for people with theoretical, constitutional knowledge. Any monkey can code. I let ChatGPT aid me with a lot of my C code, it's very decent at generating C. Like I need a Makefile, it makes it for me. I need a print help function, it makes it for me. There's nothing wrong with using AI to 'help' you, but don't use it in vital shit!

But, if the code that AI generates is as good as the vital backbones of your software, maybe save up some money and go to college if you haven't, a 2-year degree at a junior college will be good. I am going back to college next year and I am 31! There's nothing wrong with being an old student.

Just don't expect people to suck your dick when you don't know how recursion works!

It’s better now. No more bottles and kegs. This time it’s barrels, vintages and terroirs.