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So much of the AI stuff thrown at me is basically "X is dead - here's why you should mindlessly go all-in on Y". No thanks!

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sometimes i feel a strong connection to the web dev world pre-AI where there always was a greater tool releasing, everyone dropping npm for yarn for pnpm, Angular for React then Vue then Svelte, and so on...

There's nothing new about Cargo Cult 🤷 Also Loops are dead, use recursion only and write your app in Prolog

Last time I encountered Prolog was at university, and that's quite a while ago. But man, it was so elegant. 🙂 And yeah, agree cargo-culting existed before AI, but the speed/churn at the moment is IMHO unprecedented.

It’s sad to see Matt pocock go from useful source of typescript information to YouTube sellout. I mean sad in the truest sense. Not anything against him, as I’d do the same for the money it must be making him. Just sad that that’s what society rewards.