Plus the internet basically equates cynicism with intelligence
This is a generally known phenomenon in psychology. If you leave a book review saying that you liked a book, people are biased to believe you are stupid. If you criticize a book negatively people are biased to believe you are smart.
I can corroborate this. I coached mechanical engineers who had to learn some programming to conduct research by analyzing factory machine data I provided them (them being the domain experts). The ones who learned python and sql using AI hardly had learned anything after half a year, the ones I instructed where to find the API docs and a beginner tutorial weren’t just much further along, they were also on a faster trajectory for the future. I think AI is a beginner trap because it allows them to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. It is much more useful in the hands of an expert in the long term.
I think this has been shown for fast majority with homework. You just don't learn much by copying homework from somewhere else. Actual effort is needed for learning process. Unless you are some weird most likely rare genius...
Also makes me think of lot of incidental learning that can go on. Like when looking at API docs noticing the other things. Might not be useful now, but could very well be later.
I don’t think that the author considers collaboration bad in general, but instead how it’s done in most large corporations:
But there’s a huge difference between communication and collaboration as infrastructure to support individual, high-agency ownership, and communication and collaboration as the primary activity of an organisation. Which, if we’re honest, is what most collaboration-first cultures have actually built.
The compiler is often not allowed to rearrange such operations due to a change in intermediate results. So one would have to activate something like fastmath for this code, but that’s probably not desired for all code, so one has to introduce a small library, and so on. Debug builds may be using different compilation flags, and suddenly performance can become terrible while debugging. Performance can also tank because a new compiler version optimizes differently, etc. So in general I don’t think this advice is true.
