[Aurornis]

I still can’t believe that people take Caveman seriously.

It’s a funny joke, but saving a couple hundred tokens in the final output is going to be negligible, especially when coding where it’s common to go through hundreds of thousands of tokens in a session. You also have to consider the additional tokens consumed by the skill itself (acknowledging that output tokens are billed at a different rate).

I got a kick out of it when it was released, but now that I’m seeing it repeated as a useful operation it’s apparent how much cargo culting is going on in this space.

[nomel]

I like it when people make conclusions with data, rather than emotion.

It's good someone benchmarked it.

[ptsneves]

People explore what tickles them. Others try to rationalise what they like, even when the reason is flimsy. It’s ok :)

It really releases the stress slightly to call bugs, buggas and generally role play a humorous setting than a purely tech me. I think I will make it speak out loud just to have a laugh at cavemen speak about default arguments in a method.

> I didn’t find bugga but others from tribe will scratch head. Leave comment.

> You clever. Fix it.

I predict caveman speak will be a fad, and people will jokingly speak like that. It also compresses human language.

[Esophagus4]

Yeah there are similar “joke” tools / languages that found their friendly audience for a time.

I like when programmers do creative, goofy stuff rather than spending all their time cranking out sterile soulless SaaS.

It’s what separates us from the machines. For now :)

https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy

[antonvs]

> I still can’t believe that people take Caveman seriously.

I treat it as a criterion for people who shouldn’t be taken seriously.

We have a few at our company. None of them are actually software developers, thankfully.