alt Hacker NewsAI beginners use Opus as a replacement for grep/sed.
Mediocre programmers use AI to write sed one-liners for them and then brag about AI productivity boosts.
And experts just use sed directly and then they wonder why everyone else is raving about AI.
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baal80spam • today at 7:37 AM
This warrants a "galaxy brain" meme.
Having written more sed invocations by hand than I care to remember, please bin me in the mediocre camp.
Aside: The speed at which AI can spit out complex diagnostics is nuts. Par is usually half a second for a dozen complex shell commands tailored to the exact problem at hand.