Comic Archive

Setting: Adil's office.
Max: Are you still following that Python programming course, Adil?
Adil: Yes, soon I will crush you puny geeks with my hacker skills!
Max: You won't use those skills to again doctor one of our demos, I hope?

Adil: No, I have heard rumors that Alana has collected weaponry to beat me up if I dare. But hey, you know Python, right? Can you help me with this week's homework exercise? It is about class versus instance methods…
Max: Hold it, are you asking me to do your task? You do understand the concept of exercise, right?

Max: Do you also go to the gym and then ask others to lift the weights for you? You're supposed to learn to do things yourself.
Adil: Grmbl, then I'll just ask ChatWSL.
Max: I can't wait until A.I. becomes truly intelligent and also refuses to help with cheating…

Setting: The kitchen/lunch area.
Adil: I am now writing Python code with A.I. assistance, it goes 55% faster!
Steve: Well, that kind of speed-up is actually inversely proportional to programming experience. For senior programmers, the gain may be less than 10%.

Adil: That must obviously just be because old farts do not dare to embrace these new tools, and stubbornly write everything themselves from the ground up.
Steve: Um, not really. It is mostly because those old farts simply know how many mistakes the A.I. will make, hence either write all the code themselves, or waste a lot of time fixing all the mistakes.

Steve: Consider this: a baby has zero knowledge of writing code, and has infinite gain from anything being auto-generated. An old fart who knows exactly what to write, is better off writing it right away, than to coax exactly that code out of an A.I. assistant.
Adil: Well, then at least I am not a baby anymore…