Is this a survey?
Is this a survey?
Posted Aug 19, 2025 16:08 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Is this a survey? by jmalcolm
Parent article: The State of Python 2025
Both coding and driving benefit massively from practice, both suffer badly from beginner confidence - the proportion of youngsters who crash cars, and screw up coding, is high for both.
Both suffer badly from most people believing "practice makes perfect", and only a few believing "practicing perfection makes perfect".
The trouble is AI falls extremely firmly into the "practice makes perfect" camp, ignoring the saying "only an idiot expects that repeating the same actions time after time will eventually bring about a different result".
Cheers,
Wol
Posted Aug 22, 2025 10:19 UTC (Fri)
by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
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OTOH, the universe has drastic methods of getting rid of the really bad drivers that don't work on (most) bad programmers in the same way.
As the saying goes, “there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots”. But the world is teeming with old incompetent programmers.
Is this a survey?
Both coding and driving benefit massively from practice, both suffer badly from beginner confidence - the proportion of youngsters who crash cars, and screw up coding, is high for both.