I wonder how long it will take for new programmers to not believe anyone when we tell them that you can edit source code directly without yelling at a chatbot
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@sebhans a lot of people use chatbots to launch apps, which is a truly spectacular thing to behold
@thomasfuchs I choose to believe there are still some young people out there interested in actually learning and developing a skill.
@thomasfuchs I can see this trend reviving an old habit. I missed the event in this leaked CCTV, but I knew the star, Mike. Nice guy, very helpful. Sorry I can only find it on YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwM3cUJKkuE
Or perhaps in future they'll grab a microphone pod (with an AI logo that looks like an arsehole, obviously) and throw it out of the window?
@thomasfuchs Editing code directly is wasteful. When you edit code directly you sometimes need to say "please" — which wastes tokens. Direct code editing and saying please is THE #Tokenmaxxing. I know I follow you for #retrocomputing, but that is peak 2026-08, nobody does that any more.
@thomasfuchs "Like the *output* code? How could you even understand it??"
@thomasfuchs I met someone who doesn't “believe in creating diagrams by hand” (their words). Rather than drawing a single additional arrow into a (simple) architecture diagram, they insisted on prompting Claude Code to add it. Collaborating with them on the diagram was a weird experience.
Me: “OK, we can remove this note now. We have addressed it.”
They: “OK, let me ask Claude …”
2 minutes of tapping noises, and a new image appears (pasted into a Google doc), with the note removed.
In Excalidraw this would have been one click and one keypress. And this is worth boiling the world for?