2026-03-18 14:46 UTC
OH "We are going to use AI to check the links in our documentation site when we open a PR."
Me: "You want to use AI to crawl a webpage? Why not use the 1000+ comp-sci 101 projects? It will be cheaper and more deterministic"
You don't need #AI for everything
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@heiglandreas@phpc.social 2026-03-18 14:53
@manchuck Hey! Half the internet broke just because some dud thought it'd be a great idea to remove a left-pad library! Of course we need AI for EvErYtHiNg!!!!111!!11
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@hennell@phpc.social 2026-03-18 18:30
@manchuck I'm trying to handover various projects and watched my boss ask Claude to generate documentation on it. It has a readme he didn't even look at first, then was impressed how detailed it was - based on the bits literally in the readme!
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@dirtside@phpc.social 2026-03-18 20:28
@manchuck s/everything/anything
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@denniskoch@phpc.social 2026-03-19 13:39
@manchuck Got a client request: „We want to generate PDFs but don’t want to copy all the data from the other PDF. Can you extract it with AI?“ Me: „Where’s that data coming from?“ „Our CRM“ Me: „Does it have an API?“ Of course it does. Problem solved.