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Tech is supposed to make our lives easier (News)
Feb 10, 2025 · 8 min · 8.3 MB
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Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curriculum to help us manage life in the ChatGPT world, Daniel Delaney thinks deeply on chat as a dev tool UI, Benedict Evans explores our assumptions that computers be ‘correct’ & the Thoughtbot team writes up six cases when not to refactor.
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- 0:00What up, friendly nerds?
- 0:50Tech is supposed to make our lives easier
- 2:58How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
- 3:38Chat is a bad UI pattern for dev tools
- 4:57Sponsor: Augment Code
- 5:49Are better models better?
- 6:38Reasons not to refactor
- 7:33That's the news for now