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Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curriculum to help us manage life in the ChatGPT world, Daniel Delaney thinks deeply on chat as a dev tool UI, Benedict Evans explores our assumptions that computers be 'correct' & the Thoughtbot team writes up six cases when not to refactor.

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08:25
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2025-02-10 21:45
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https://changelog.com/news/131
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Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curriculum to help us manage life in the ChatGPT world, Daniel Delaney thinks deeply on chat as a dev tool UI, Benedict Evans explores our assumptions that computers be ‘correct’ & the Thoughtbot team writes up six cases when not to refactor.

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0 What up, friendly nerds?
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178 How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
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218 Chat is a bad UI pattern for dev tools
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297 Sponsor: Augment Code
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349 Are better models better?
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398 Reasons not to refactor
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453 That's the news for now
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50 Tech is supposed to make our lives easier
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