"You want real connection to code? You *earn* that. You dig in. You wrestle with segfaults at 3 in the morning. You pace your apartment muttering about pointer arithmetic. [...] You write your own damn notes instead of snapping lecture slides and pretending it counts. When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning. [...] You don’t *know* your code. You’re babysitting it." ~ https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/ (asterisks inserted for italicization)
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"The thing I hate the most about AI and it's ease of access; the slow, painful death of the hacker soul... Brought not by war or scarcity, but by convenience. By buttons. By bots."

"Kids would stay up all night on IRC with bloodshot eyes, trying to render a cube in OpenGL without segfaulting their future. They cared. They would install Gentoo on a toaster just to see if it’d boot. They knew the smell of burnt voltage regulators and the exact line of assembly where Doom hit 10 FPS on their calculator. These were *artists*. They wrote code like jazz musicians - full of rage, precision, and divine chaos.
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