[fragmede]

Not to out myself as old, but I learned to program before ChatGPT before stack overflow and before Google. There are some here that are even older. There were paper books with indexes. Indexes!

That way of life is gone for me. I've got a smartphone and I doomscroll to my detriment. What's new and fascinating to me is the models themselves. https://fi-le.net/oss/ currently trending here is the tip of a whole new area of study and work.

[leptons]

I've been programming for 46 years. The first program I wrote was on a piece of notebook paper, in anticipation of getting my first computer a few weeks later (Atari 400).

[blooalien]

> Wasn't that the boxy little thing that had "Cartridge BASIC" on a little brick thing that you plugged in just like Atari videogame cartridges on the Atari 5200 game console?

[1718627440]

I haven't even been born for more than half of that time. My first programs were also written on paper. It isn't only age.

[fragmede]

How has your experience with AI been?

[leptons]

Not great, honestly. It's rather like pulling a lever on a slot machine. And I'm not really into gambling.