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scotty79today at 11:06 AM2 repliesview on HN

If you have a toolbox full of similar but different tool getting to know them is a prudent thing to do, not a psychosis. There's no connection because the tool is immutable (except for adjustments you made) but you do develop a specific relation with that tool. Some people even love some of their tools at some level.

And if humans are anything, they are tool users.


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coldteatoday at 11:51 AM

>If you have a toolbox full of similar but different tool getting to know them is a prudent thing to do, not a psychosis

Can be both. Use of some tools like LLMs might be more inducing psychosis than others like plain compilers or hammers.

>And if humans are anything, they are tool users.

To the point of self-destruction sometimes.

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j-bostoday at 11:30 AM

Yeah, AI tools bring software developers closer to the messy real world where 0 and 1 aren't always exactly 0 and 1.

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