Al Sweigart

@AlSweigart
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Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and other programming books. Mostly harmless. he/him
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Show threadAl Sweigart10h ago

Rephrased: "AI allows you to program in English, but English is too imprecise to be a programming language."

(Though I'd say AI does *not* allow you program in English.)

Al Sweigart10h ago

What do you think of this concept which I call "the vibe coding paradox":

AI can create programs from English.

English is too imprecise to be a programming language.

Al Sweigart11h ago
I created a "nested loop visualization tool" using an LLM to demonstrate the behavior of nested loops to beginner programmers using a clock metaphor: https://inventwithpython.com/nestedloops/
Nested Loop Clock

Al Sweigart12h ago
So what happens when the Supreme Court decides, "Actually, all the output of AI belongs to the AI company" because the SCJs all DGAF and are insider trading, and now OpenAI and Anthropic can sue a million businesses for ownership?
Al Sweigart13h ago

Sometimes I think about zip disks, those 100mb, 250mb (even 1gb!) floppy disks. Were they filling an important niche until burnable CDs became available? Or were they a silly evolutionary dead end, and their presence/absence wouldn't matter in the short or long term?

Who knows. Some things aren't obvious even in hindsight.

Al Sweigart1d ago
Should I hide my Reddit comment history to minimize people pulling up old, out of context comments? Or should I make them available so people know I'm not a bot?
Al Sweigart1d ago
If you knew this was your last month to live, are you the sort of person who would live it up and spend away all of your savings? Would you carry out important things you knew needed to be done some day by someone? Would you collapse inward and retreat into your comforts to numb the sadness?
Al Sweigart2d ago
Andrea Junker 2d ago
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
Al Sweigart2d ago

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/116360496243585705

Learning Cabo from Trey is easily in the top 5 PyCon experiences for me.

Al Sweigart2d ago
Men would rather insist they have Waffle House teleportation powers than go to therapy.