If the summary contains the information required for the task at hand then the summary is sufficient. Why would I waste time reading the whole book
Bc reading the whole book often leads to a more robust and complete understanding of the subject. You first would have to be in a situation where reading the book would not constitute a "waste of time". What our
Schutzstaffel friend doesn't seem to get is that very often we don't have the luxury and free-time to read all the books we would like. So we do the next best thing—us not being scholars but the workforce in demanding rolls with real obstacles like deadlines, team expectations, sprint planning, load balancing, etc.—we take what we need initially
. In 2025, vis-à-vis data gluttony and countless mountains of literature, the right AI model is
clutch in trawling thick forests of data to serve up useful knowledge gems for what you need when you need it (as
you and I know). With enough experience and time you end up reading the whole book and several others (or the equivalent of same), albeit on a need-to-know basis. Sure,
in theory, you'll learn better by reading the right books front-to-back in some logical order.
However, in
praxis it's all "pragmatism, not idealism." Ultimately you learn best by keeping your job and continuing to accrue hands-on real world experience.
@-=SS=- doesn't understand the pros and exaggerates the cons. All of us need to test our code, anyway, so it's not some waste of time to check it line-by-line. You should lint anyway, and read every line of the code you commit first to be sure you understand what it's doing. If that's not the obvious CYA method of incorporating some LLM into your workflow successfully, then Idk what is. But LLMs do not automatically mean every code developer across the world just got lobotomized or something. And sometimes ppl who write and publish books about coding, firstly that's some ironic, slow-paced shit, and secondly, there can be a tendency for these authors to become self-indulgent and less effective at teaching. Prose quality and subject relevancy vary.
If the task at hand is your own learning, learning to learn,
That's nice and all, but this does not pay bills. Sometimes we have to balance self-improvement against practicality. The idea is to learn on the job, on the fly, and in real time with getting actual work done. Sure, it isn't ideal, but this is a reality for many.
then skipping over the process and cherry-picking what you think you need will only lead to you being stunted and short-sighted.
Uh huh. That is the
only outcome? No exceptions? And you're 100% certain?
Yeah it's great if you're completely business minded and don't care about anything outside profit margins and "saving time".
That's not the only scenario in which it can be great. And anyway, that's the nature of many businesses out of raw necessity. Sometimes you gotta focus on the bottom line to stay afloat. I didn't write these rules and I didn't invent crapitalism.
But for the humans in the group that sort of attitude is detrimental psychologically.
People being focused on the company's bottom line is a matter of practicality and it does not equate to, for lack of a better term, a toxic work environment. As with most things in the world, there is a balance to be struck between being profit-driven + nimble while simultaneously fostering a top notch corporate culture with high retention rates and satisfaction among employees. This should be the goal and is not impossible to accomplish with sufficient planning & execution, plus a pinch of good luck and a healthy serving of hard work while you also "work smart" so to speak.
Nah. I'm not abashed to say I don't like it and I don't like what it is doing to both people and the way jobs are conducted, that it is a net negative, and that it will backfire spectacularly in short order.
Maybe you're getting old and crotchety, unaware of the grandpa style bellyaching you do now, being stubborn as a mule, blissfully apathetic about how you come across, pessimistic and yearning for some earlier time before the new fangle-dangled [
insert tech trend].
It's short-termism that the public have the option not to play along with by choice; it's surprising to me just how quickly people forget about the consequences of other technology pushed on us in the past 20 years..
Yeah man, those fucking smartphones… so inconvenient. And higher vehicle safety standards? What the fuck is that shit? Oh no, did Facebook try something that flopped? How fucking dare they attempt to innovate or revolutionize a thing!? Touchscreens? Yuck. Cellular broadband? Gross. Bluetooth ubiquity? Pure garbage. Better USB standards? Stop pushing this tech on us! I yearn for ditto machines and dot matrix printers, Windows 3.1 / DOS, floppy disks, Leisure Suit Larry In The Land Of Lounge Lizards, and rampant bigotry. High-pixel density screens can fuck off, too. For that matter so can LED advancements, 3D printing, iPads, Drones, CRISPR gene editing, you get the picture.
like, you want people to be even more short-sighted and intellectually dim? Because that's what is going to happen.. and for what?
You have no faith in the younger generations. They're smarter, kinder and more savvy than we ever were. I'm optimistic about them, and I appreciate their retro obsession.
So we 'saved time' doing stupid shit for peanuts anyway?
Oh you haven't heard? Nobody gets out of this alive. You're taking life too seriously again.
