Kerfuffle

First, how is this different from having your IDE fill in your loop templates?

I don't do that actually, but I think there are some differences.

1. One is if there's a loop template in your IDE, you know it's going to work. With LLMs you have to double check stuff (or just have it be wrong some of the time).
2. You don't have to type in a bunch of instructions to use a loop template. You also don't really have to wait for the filled in template to get generated.
3. People don't usually use that because they just don't know how to write the loop themselves, it's a convenience feature.

That said:

I’m usually doing this for a customer in a language I’ll never use again.

Maybe you're the one in a million exception where this approach is a benefit. Most of the time when you talk to people on the internet, they're going to assume you're a reasonably typical case and not the extremely rare exception.

Letting them know what mankind is all about seems like a terrible idea. We're jerks.

Right, but you can’t give it the variable names you’re using and have it fill them in, and if you want to do something inside that loop with

Why are you actively trying to avoid learning how to write the loop? Are you planning to have ChatGPT fill in your loop templates for the rest of your life?

But you do you, I’ll keep using ChatGPT and looking like a miracle worker.

It's going to be slower overall than just using the reference and learning how to do it. I really, really am skeptical that a developer at the level where they need that feature is going to seem like a miracle worker to anyone other than people who are just impressed when you can do anything with a computer.

If I got vored, promptly being upvored seems like the best case scenario.

This is great. Although...

when you see something that sucks, you know exactly how to fix it.

I wish! "Fix" is wayyyy too optimistic.But maybe, just maybe, I could make it suck a tiny bit less. Still left with utter garbage, of course. Okay, well didn't you just say you could make it suck a tiny bit less? So do it again. And again, and...

And it jumped on the man and scratched him all to pieces!

I do like a happy ending. The jerk had it coming. Hopefully the dogs were okay though.

Eating burgers to destroy the environment was good enough for my pappy and it's good enough for me! Kids these days with their new-fangled environment destruction techniques. Pshaw.

On a more serious note, people are eager to criticize stuff that has a relatively tiny effect while there's a much bigger problem they're part of.

Thanks for having a good attitude to criticism!

It’s always strange to see a member of the most incarcerated population on the planet wax lyrical about how free they are.

The US is actually #6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

Obviously that's still not great.

This is a really misleading title if it's just grouping places where people were imprisoned with places people were actually tortured. There's obviously a massive difference. This seems like the original article in Ukrainian: https://mvs.gov.ua/news/pid-cas-zustrici-iz-specialnoiu-dopovidackoiu-oon-z-pitan-tortur-katerina-pavlicenko-povidomila-pro-viiavlennia-v-ukrayini-80-rosiiskix-kativen

Are they actually saying people were definitely tortured in all 80 places there? (Also kind of funny, Google Translate seems to do a better job than the link in OP but it's still not clear to me exactly what they meant.)

I painted my profile picture a million years ago in another life (sadly back to stick figures these days). I like it enough to use it, even though it has major flaws.

Could a feeling or emotion be more fascinating than fascination?