@CedC@diaspodon.fr @Linux_in_a_Bit@infosec.exchange I might get hate from my Fedi ingroup for this but I find this to be an extremely good use of AI. I use Perplexity (a really nice AI search engine tool) for quickly learning technical stuff that would take me a ton of work reading scattered, sparse documentation otherwise

the trick is to only ask it for information that you can immediately test/verify

(with this said, I don't financially support AI companies ever because I'm very worried about the risks posed by AI)

@GoodNewsGreyShoes@mastodon.art @malte@anticapitalist.party @Slacker@mastodontech.de @Kancept@infosec.exchange I totally agree with this. an important aspect of emotional maturity is being able to see someone getting frustrated at something that you like, and not taking that as frustration at you, but rather meeting them where they are and saying "I totally understand why you're frustrated. would you like some help? this was hard for me too at first but I can share what I know"

I get frustrated at any tech that I don't immediately understand because it makes me feel incredibly stupid to see others using it (seemingly) so effortlessly. and I try to show others the same understanding and respect that I would like to be shown when I feel that way

there are three kinds of programming tutorials:

• "look man we both know you don't wanna learn this shit so just install 30 GB of random frameworks and here's the code to copy-paste if you wanna make a basic game and feel like you accomplished something. I'm not gonna explain how any of this works because nobody cares as long as your little guy jumps when you press spacebar"
• "an endofunctor is a type of monoid which is a subcategory of monad that is variadic over the set of all impure lambdas - therefore all possible expressions in this language can be modeled after- wait where are you going?"
• "this is called a variable! a variable is a little friend that can hold onto something called a value! variables love grabbing values and they can even carry them into functions! say hi, variable!"