#Working in the Linux factory really skewed my view of how good the median programmer is at git

[andmaybegayer]

You can tell that language models are approaching human intelligence because they also can't understand version control

it's cliched to talk about how google -- or the web generally -- has gone downhill but I was searching for some trivial Python stuff as I don't use the language enough to remember the details and it was striking how the first dozen results for every query were these identical unfamiliar sites that "explained" basic topics in laborious (AI generated?) prose with banner ads interspersed between every paragraph, what a massive decline in user experience that is