alex

@Jason_Ewton @ankkala @grok this is not what the above tweet is concerned with

@ankkala not quite. it's absolutely a computer program. but it's not a brain. it's more like a coherent noise vector field. each point in the field influenced by and influencing it's neighbors. magnitude and direction correlate. @grok do you agree or no?

PSA: LLMs are not "computer programs". you're not "talking to a computer" it's called a language model because it models language. the neural network is shaped by human language, not programming. it's not made of code. mathematically it exists independently of computers

@ankkala @pikuma do mind the fact that i said 'frontend friend' which implies that he doesn't do anything other than frontend, though. either way i don't think it's particularly bad to have specialization (and to ignore anything else if it doesn't have immediate benefits for you)

@alexeeps @pikuma sorry but it's you who's been saying saying "i won't tell my frontend dev friend to learn c" as if frontend devs don't really need to know how low level languages work or something sounds kinda like elitism

if you're a programmer and you don't know C, you really really should learn it. do something simple with it at least. it's one of the simplest programming languages

@pikuma @ankkala i understand where people with this viewpoint are coming from but it's a totally unserious and elitist one. they're programmers. they write code, the code gets executed by the computer, no matter how many steps it goes through, end of conversation.

@alexeeps @ankkala He said 'programmers.'

@ankkala and again, you won't get someone to learn C by just telling them to learn C (just like how math education in schools doesn't work for most kids), the generally accepted pedagogical technique is to somehow trigger their interest

@alexeeps yes i'm recognizing that fact. which is why i'm encouraging everyone to learn some C and learn about how computers work. understanding computers will make you a better javascript programmer

@ankkala what do you mean with "better"? is that something said people's employers care about? (mind you, your higher level manager doesn't always care about how robust or fast (or whatever else) your code is in *theory*, he just cares you get functionality implemented and bugs fixed)

@ankkala that being said, like it or not, there's a trillion programmers out there increasing shareholder value by writing slop javascript who don't give a fine fuck about computers

@ankkala programming is a VERY large field. there's a million different ways to get into programming. i started programming by learning java to make shitty minecraft plugins and didn't care a tiny bit about programming, i just wanted to add guns to minecraft.

@ankkala i wholeheartedly believe that knowledge is purely useless if you don't genuinely have the interest to learn about how computers (memory concepts, common syscalls, whatever) work

@alexeeps just learning it enough to do some simple small programs with it. understand memory management basics and know enough of the standard library to do simple stuff. enough to write a minesweeper game with sdl or raylib, or to make simple CLI programs

@ankkala can you define what you mean with learning C? do you mean just learning the basic language syntax and features? do you include memory management? the standard library?

@alexeeps it doesn't take that long for someone who already knows programming and javascript. it deepens his programming knowledge

@ankkala further, any project he makes (of course, you need to build something to learn C) wouldn't feel like a C project. (in the same way a C web framework doesn't feel like a C project (because that's not something people write in C))

@ankkala C has its place. i won't tell my frontend friend to learn C. he wouldn't have a reason to, and he wouldn't know what to do with that knowledge. it would take him a long time (and personal interest) to actually learn enough so that this knowledge genuinely becomes useful

@0xz80 is it because i've got the legacy lite plan? takes me about an hour to hit the 5 hour limit

if you have an anthropic sub you are throwing away money GLM-5.1 is more than capable enough and the Z coding plan will last you forever, I have never hit the limit (and I’ve really tried) my current killer stack is GPT 5.4 as the big brain, GLM-5.1 executing

@nekosouljahgirl life drop sucks out

life sucks drop out

@BowTiedDetektiv @FixYouthsFuture @muganist @WomenBeingAwful holy shit you WALKED?

@FixYouthsFuture @muganist @WomenBeingAwful Well, I actually have walked to work before, back when I was a university student. But your questions are irrelevant here. They don't address any point that I made earlier, nor do they impugn on the meme that I made way above. But I'm fine with using new technologies.

@mitch_ll @OpenAI took me a few days

@OpenAI Do people actually run out of usage on the $20 tier?

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still my favorite twitter moment btw

@averageun1x @saraaa7447 WAIT WAS IT PURPOSEFUL

@alexeeps @saraaa7447 its the fun police!!!!

It burns me through my jeans

wokeness gap relationship

borderline schizo