re: Can we have a real thread about Texas

If you meet a Texan and less than 2 generations of their family have lived in Texas they live there now because they failed wherever it was they moved to Texas from. Most likely. Those types of Texans will be the most Texas Texans imaginable...all hat and no cattle. If their family has been in the state for more than 2 generations they most likely also failed to make it wherever they came from and could not scrape together enough money or ambition to get much past Louisianna. That or they are Hispanic and failed to whup a bunch of near starved to death and wormy folks who couldn't cut it on the east coast to hold onto a patch of sun shriveled and dried up earth that no one else ever wanted. They will drink beer...and they will dance. Almost every man, woman and child in the Lonestar state will do both. They will also make all manner of wild claims about roast beef slathered in ketchup. Good people though.....

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AI is fixing to put a dent in that

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Maybe for majority of the programming part, but there's still a lot of things companies want in having knowledge in actual computer science. Graduate school is going to continue to become more of the norm.

Funny, all the people I knew were in RTF.

Rodo

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Maybe for majority of the programming part, but there's still a lot of things companies want in having knowledge in actual computer science.

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Especially once they spend millions to implement the AI systems and then realize they have no idea what to do with them.

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Funny, all the people I knew were in RTF.

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CNS is the biggest college at UT Austin and computer science has the most enrolled students.

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This doesn't help our case. Guy is 100% douchebag.

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I watch Star Talk sometimes and noticed how much he hates being proven wrong. He always has to find some crumbs in an argument he was right about.

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Back in my day (grandpa voice), we all took pride in how efficient and concise (slick) our coding could be.

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I mean, I'm always thinking about ways to improve code even though sometimes it's negligible with today's systems. Writing elegant code is beautiful and LLMs are getting very good at writing elegant code. It is even getting better at writing code in your "voice". I don't know a single person that doesn't use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to help them with their work. Some companies are even getting away from Leetcode problems and doing work simulation interviews where you can use LLMs to help you solve whatever problem or implement whatever system design you need to get done.

The issue is vibe coding is real and the biggest sack of bullshite and I can't wait for the bubble to burst.

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Bascially, all it was was a LISP programming course. I distinctly remember that.

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Yea, I went to UT in mid 2010s. I never used Lisp, but used Scheme before. Functional programming is great.

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AI is fixing to put a dent in that

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What LLMs are doing is impressive and I'm constantly amazed at what it grasps and does, but AI should make a programmer more productive, not less. And I don't see the need for software disappearing anytime soon.

I'm loving it for basic/common things, but it lacks in the bigger picture department and isn't so great at more complicated things I work on. Still useful though, especially for debugging. I don't want to debug any other way now.

Maybe in a few years it'll be at that point, but the costs are also going to increase a lot. From what I've been seeing, these companies are basically losing money on AI right now. Lots of money, billions every year. Because they are offering their services much cheaper than it actually costs and they also still have to pay for development, and things themselves. Once people start having to pay the real prices of using AI, it's not going to be fun. Add on top of that the extra resources needed for the more complicated queries, especially on larger code bases, for getting to that next level.

So we'll see.