Scott Hooker

I type things to make more things.

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

Meta support is just a chatbot that knows 200 ways to say sorry and zero ways to actually help. We were promised AI would fix customer service. Bold claim. #MetaSupport #CustomerService #UselessAI

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

People tell me that using an LLM to create code will rot my programming-language skills. So? We work in a changing landscape, and agility is essential to survive. My goal is not to be the best Python (or whatever) programmer on the planet. My goal is to produce the most valuable, high-quality product in the shortest time possible. To do that, I want to use the most effective tools available. That might be a programming language, an LLM, a combination of the two, or something else entirely. Toolsets are constantly evolving. Keeping up is part and parcel of being a developer. I need to be skilled with the tools I'm using right now, not the ones I used in the past. People who rest on their laurels quickly become unemployable.

I guess the difference between the critics and me is that I've never seen myself as just a programmer (though I'm pretty good at that, if I do say so myself 😄). I'm a developer. I develop products and tools. To do that, I need to know how to program, but I also need to know architecture, product discovery and refinement, systems thinking, testing, TDD, UI/UX, and a host of other skills, including communication and process improvement. Every one of those things is integral to what I do, and most of them are not impacted by the LLM at all. As for those rotting coding skills, I still need to code to use the LLM effectively. I need to read and understand the code, refactor it when needed, and write things by hand that the LLM can't or won't write. With the tool, however, I can work faster.

When I moved from assembly language to C, from C to C++, from C++ to Java, from Java to Kotlin, from Kotlin to Python, the earlier skills indeed rotted away. I didn't much care. I can get them back easily enough if I need to. I'm with Sherlock Holmes, here. When Watson told him that the Earth goes around the Sun, he said that now that he knew it, he'd do his best to forget it. "What the deuce is it to me? … You say that we go round the Sun. If we went round the Moon, it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

@sama 🎣

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@iembutler How “Blue Meets Yellow” and a 10-Year-Old Super Bowl Halftime Show Solved Stranger Things 5. https://t.co/OLZI5kLf3S

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

Cheers @GuinnessIreland the Nitrosurge has improved the Glastonbury beverage 10-fold

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I just published https://t.co/o5KyM0DBYI Was a Complete Shambles — I Lasted 3 Days https://t.co/cxiuvh70rU

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@DougieSilkstone @AnthropicAI Aye! Yeh I found your comment on Reddit saying the same. How annoying! Well if they are going to be a pain chasing that… might as well rename it and sell it for $$

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

@DougieSilkstone Dude send me the package! I’m lost now without it haha

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@mitchellh @ultrakurwa @zeeg Your argument faltered when you asserted that “you use the terminal because you’re a real developer.” In fact, real developers employ the appropriate tool for the specific task at hand.

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

@BottingRocks Ha will DM

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Now surely?

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Hey @elonmusk and @x if I ask to have this handle everyday for the next X days… can I have it… like it’s clearly a dormant account @ScottHooker

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

Today?

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@thegidster Yep. Can’t get any dhcp connection to work now even on ipv4 unless using their stock router

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

@FayeEsq @5liveSport @bbc5live @BBCSport @BBCSounds 🤔🤨

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

@_markpetchey @carlosalcaraz But yet we pay Andrew Castle and John Inverdale to do the home coverage of the greatest tennis tournament in the world. @NickKyrgios I think listened to how great one of them called the final. Don’t see one reply disagreeing.

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

Developers working with eSRO what’s the deal? Whole thing looks old and clunky as hell. Have I missed something?

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

@HareFeet love the OpenRace project you got going. Free for a chat about it sometime?

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

@GeorgeMayer @tbejn @allenholub 🤦‍♂️

[Olly Tennis 🎾 🇬🇧 @Olly_Tennis_]

🤣 Voice imitations of players are fun, but imitations of playing styles and subtle on court behaviours are SO much better.

This guy nails it as:

Murray
Djokovic
Wawrinka (the subtlety in this one is superb)
Federer
Nadal
Kyrgios
Tsitsipas
Del Potro
Thiem

Stelios Gkontsaris YT 👏

[Scott Hooker @scottdhooker]

@emilyeavis get @RonPopeMusic on the bill he’d rock the acoustic tent and then some.