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computers were invented in the *mumblties* and you had to pay to program them
then in the late 70s, you could finally program them! for free! you just had to own a microcomputer! yay
but then in the 80s and 90s you had to buy compilers, which were expensive
by with the 2000s, rapidly compilers and interpreters became free again. anyone could program, for free!
and then in the 2020s someone invented "programming but you have to pay", again.
DON'T FALL FOR THIS TRAP
@foone since the mid 80s I am paid to do work with computers but I am a shitty programmer. now I am an archivist. the arrival of the LLMs enabled me to be creative with software. I think of something and the machine does it for me. I know mine is not the common experience but it also exists.
@foone Shouldn't it read DON'T FALL FOR THIS SLOP
@dazzr Nah: "slop" is focusing on the quality and quantity of AI content (and for a bonus, it's also based on an antisemitic meme! yay!).
even if AI stuff was rare and of perfect quality, my argument would still be valid.
my point is the paywall. You don't want a paywall on your tools, good or bad.
like, even if the AI can do programming for you, which... is debatable.
It's not going to do it for free. They're selling you the ability to program. One of the main reasons you should learn to program is so no one can take it from you, or charge a fee for doing it.
@foone can I disagree amd say this time they are *renting* the ability to maybe program. And the prices they are charging are increasing pretty rapidly as they think they have people locked in.
go ask anyone, in any field, if it's a good thing that their work is held behind one company's paywall.
See how that works for them.
I'm just saying, I've been doing this a long time, and I've seen both sides of the "programming is free!" and "programming is expensive :(" coin, so I can assure you, you REALLY want to stay on the "free" side.
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