| ▲ | nchmy 4 days ago | |
It's peculiar that you singled-out that specific sentence from my entire comment. I sense a trap being laid, but I'll bite anyway. Luddites were skilled craftspeople who are afraid of technology/progress supplanting them, which is largely what is happening when people reject jj in favour of arcane git incantations as part of a vastly more laborious git workflow. The biggest way in which this label does not apply here, is that luddites were also primarily fighting for their economic positions, which were of course completely threatened by new technology. Whereas jj doesn't cost anyone anything - its just a toolbox and way of operating that just makes you more efficient. My point still stands, regardless of how fitting the label was. Luddite would more directly apply to (probably the same set of people) those who are completely against ai/llms for any degree of coding, as it clearly has the potential to eliminate jobs. Though, of course, the most experienced and skilled people are well-positioned to leverage llms as cheap junior devs who can be instructed, guided, corrected etc to produce what is needed. It new, less-skilled devs/apprentices who would be most justified in fighting against LLMs, under the Luddite banner. Though we tend to see that they embrace llms most | ||
| ▲ | palata 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> which is largely what is happening when people reject jj in favour of arcane git incantations JJ is interesting, though I find some things worse than git (no email workflow, and nothing that does what `git add -p` does. In the article, it shows the limitation of the TUI for `jj split`). But what I don't get is seemingly all those people who seem to believe that git is rocket science. Yes, JJ seems in a good position to become nicer than git. But git is not hard. I don't get that part at all. So many comments saying "I have been using git for 15 years, yet I don't understand what detached HEAD / stash / git add -p / some not-so-complicated concept means". | ||
| ▲ | 8n4vidtmkvmk 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The unskilled devs don't have any skills to fall back on. I don't know how they can afford to be luddites. The skilled ones will be fired if they don't embrace it. | ||