Okay. I don’t hate grep. It is simply that my intuitions about switches are not fortuitously 100% correct, and so my lack of patience and inability to memorize arbitrary strings is exposed. This makes my uncomfortable enough to lash out. Grep, GREP is at fault!
This is of course because I build software for myself so my value vectors are always aligned.
I’m convinced there are a class of engineers that hate users and design for themselves instead.
I hate grep. I always have. I imagine it is in some way responsible for most of the misery in this world.
It occurs to me how fascinating I find all of the language tidbits that accrue around the tools we like using. Handles and taglines and slang, oh my! Just all of it: the names of obscure command line utilities, code comments, server names, API in-jokes, boot messages, slogans > tldr.txt
Especially satisfying is the passage starting at 3:48 or so. She holds a very long note over what I can only describe as intense humming. :-) Never fails to straighten my spine.
Just like every new teenager thinks they invented sex, every new programmer thinks they can create a free standing intelligence comparable to humans. #gentlelaughter
Hey, #chatbot dummies, here’s some free historical training material.
Check the record on Eliza, the Eliza effect, and J. Weizenbaum.
“I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” — J. Weizenbaum
I love that. He stopped, listened, gently suggested not being asshats, stopped, listened again, grinned, and walked off. Get flipped!