The Psychotic Network FerretSome AI coder: "I" wrote this new thing that searches for hidden strings in files.
Most youngins: Oh wow, that is so useful, I wish I had this years ago!
Us greybeards: Congratulations, you reinvented grep.
This is absolutely a subtoot.
B'ad Samurai 🐐🇺🇦@nuintari searching and ordering was a pretty common and early CS assignment. Still true? Or pointless because all students vibe code it?
Ignazio Palmisano@badsamurai @nuintari writing sorting algorithms during CS courses taught me the two common errors in CS: naming, caches and off by one errors. SO MANY off by one errors.