Kirk Woll

Engineer at TigerEye. Programmer, atheist, pilot. In my free time I play with my cats, LEGO, and pilot airplanes.

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@jarvis_best The real fun is realizing that all these parents with children who still live with them absolutely hate their kids.

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@JohnLesniewski2 @bendreyfuss Yeah, it's armor piercing or hollow point. Mutually exclusive.

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@JeffreyGoldberg The top reply to that was a trip down memory lane. (NFT the tweet, lol)

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@TheStalwart Descriptivists ignoring prescriptivists is why we have contronyms.

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@mattyglesias

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@binarybits Isn't that a bit too zero-sum? I mean, it could still put everyone out of work, but I don't think it's quite this simple.

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@MerriamWebster https://t.co/scrkyWU75P

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@jarvis_best Ok, trying to be helpful:

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@andyfowler @TheStalwart Shouldn't the rubric be inverted? If two programmers achieve the same outcome in the same amount of time, then the programmer who uses tokens more efficiently should be recognized for that, no?

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@bendreyfuss @Noahpinion My 20-something nephew phonetically pronounces all these initialisms. It's...a thing.

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@jbarro That's a "private" link again. (I'm a subscriber)

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@bendreyfuss This bit made me laugh out loud:

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@rieglobe I remember last time I visited Tokyo and was wandering one of their large department stores that had a large toy/model section that was absolutely teeming with adults. I really loved seeing that.

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@jbarro @daveweigel @bendreyfuss Was able to find it manually on the Substack home page. (I'm a subscriber to Central Air)

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@jbarro @daveweigel @bendreyfuss That link doesn't work. It told me to let you know it's private.

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@bendreyfuss Yeah, Peyton Manning is apparently a huge fan.

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@DavidMMcintosh @grok the choice of `-` for the bullet markers makes this ambiguous.

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@binarybits Agree, but I've almost never failed with the magic word "agent".

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@bendreyfuss I feel like you considered this South Park episode a documentary. :)

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@DouthatNYT Who knows when software engineering will end as a discipline? It could be near, or not. But this graph only represents the moment when the value of stackoverflow became perfectly outsourced to AI. Not the same thing.