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And yet doing arithmetic in your head is an extremely useful skill to this very day

Me too. We're the overpaid cobol programmers of the future

I never knew anyone that had one, but i knew lots of kids who wanted one

Or the website of someone who makes things for people to see, or art for people to consume, and would prefer to avoid being automatically plagiarized as much as possible. It's not always about business.

Ok, forgive my snark. But I think the point stands that for a lot of sites being found by agents is just another form of SEO.

If i were working in a country for many years, I would make some effort to learn to communicate with the other people who live in that country, before becoming a permanent resident. I understand this is very difficult; I've been studying Spanish every day for almost 2 years and I am nowhere near fluent. However, I suspect I would be further along if I lived somewhere where people commonly spoke Spanish.

I vouched for this one only for the following advice

"It's good to periodically prompt your chatbot about something you know exceptionally well, just to remind yourself that it doesn't know what it's talking about."

Not sure why this submission got flagged to oblivion, the insight that it provides isn't unique but the sheer amount of people leaning on these chatbots every day is truly terrifying.


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Acting!

I feel like a licencing process for software engineers would

A) test lots of skills that are common but not universal. I'm thinking javascript trivia here, where I don't write any javascript in my professional capacity as a software engineer; but there are many people who think Software Engineer == Javascript Programmer

B) shine too much of a light on the fact that this industry is full of people who demand high salaries but can't program their way out of a paper bag


I would prefer to have a plumber with some kind of reference that doesn't just make shit up 10% of the time -- plumbing mistakes are insanely costly (i once owned a house that was destroyed by a plumbing mistake that was made by a previous owner)

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