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Be Aware of the Makefile Effect

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rednafi ◴[] No.42666976[source]
This also happens with tools you have to use but don’t get much payoff from—like internal tooling. At work, we have a shitty in-house feature flag service. It breaks all the time and is super finicky. Learning it properly doesn’t really help me, so I mostly copy and paste my way through it.

Another example is jq. I use it occasionally, and ChatGPT handles the syntax pretty well. For me, learning it properly just isn’t worth the time or effort.

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1. ruuda ◴[] No.42674553[source]
Try https://rcl-lang.org/ instead then, it has syntax that you can write without needing ChatGPT.