Comments by "" (@adambickford8720) on "ForrestKnight" channel.

  1. Skill issues are very real and you have to weigh the tradeoffs. What capability is that foot gun buying you? For most business apps: little-to-none.
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  2. Waking up in the house paid for by java isn't so bad.
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  3. There are a lot of kids who've been coding for < 10 years that think they know way more than they do.
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  4. Even better is getting paid. For that, java scales far better.
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  5.  @fknight  I'd be careful there, as its not that clear these days: Function<String, String> myUpper = s -> s.toUpperCase(); This is indeed a function that is not bound to an object and can be passed around as a value. Yes, that `Function` is an object, but in practice it's used like a function in other languages thanks to java SAM support.
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  6. Then explain why other languages died, but not java. 'Cuz companies' is universal
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  7. LLMs offer information, not knowledge. The harder the problem, the more obvious the difference between these things becomes. In the old days all we got was data. It was up to us to turn that into information, which is itself a skill that's critical achieving knowledge.
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  8. How long did it take you to create the wall-o-text prompt? Was that, combined with the actual iterations and think time, actually meaningfully faster than if you'd have just done it by hand with a competent IDE? What about the 10th time once you're familiar w/the language/framework/etc?
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  9.  @VictorAesthetics  I hope you aren't counting on that
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  10.  @md.redwanhossain6288  You are completely missing the point. Tech is only 1 consideration in languages. It's just like how the most powerful gaming console has never won a generation. I think you are the one that is uninformed tech-wise; java doesn't need async because it now has virtual threads. We get the benefits of async without method coloring of async or complexity of reactive.
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  11.  @leversofpower  Anyone that had to figure out how to combine the fundamental things they genuinely understood to create novel solutions vs brute force iteration. Historically, the latter only worked in very narrow problem spaces. With AI the bar for 'good enough' has been lowered, but the bar for excellence has not. Obviously, there will still be amazing devs that are passionate and just naturally curious. But when you don't have that 'difficulty' filter, they become more of a unicorn than they already are relative to the pool.
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