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by fxtentacle 59 days ago
AI beginners use Opus as a replacement for grep/sed.

Mediocre programmers use AI to write sed one-liners for them and then brag about AI productivity boosts.

And experts just use sed directly and then they wonder why everyone else is raving about AI.

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Having written more sed invocations by hand than I care to remember, please bin me in the mediocre camp.

Aside: The speed at which AI can spit out complex diagnostics is nuts. Par is usually half a second for a dozen complex shell commands tailored to the exact problem at hand.

This warrants a "galaxy brain" meme.