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Subject: Re: Back To CS Basics. Fuck AI
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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> writes:

> On 10/15/26 23:26, Leroy H wrote:
>> It is amazing how knowledge of basic CS is absent in most
>> programmers, both professional and amateur alike.  While
>> "vibe coding" is all the rage, a silent disaster is also
>> creeping.
>
>   99+ percent of us got by just fine without
>   any "computer science" crapola.
>
>   CS is all math/stats. Has almost nothing to
>   do with the real-world these days. Maybe in
>   the 1940s .......
>
>   Might, MAYBE, produce a useful idea, every,
>   very, once in awhile.
>
I one time worked with a colleague who did not understand why a C#
binary executable was running significantly faster than a Python
script.

Not having basic CS fundamentals does have real implications in
everyday software. 
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