It’s our IDE of choice at work. Yeah we do some Windows forms stuff but mainly enterprise web applications now using C# .Net Entity Framework, GraphQL, and Typescript React.

Our company is all in on MS, we have windows machines, use Azure etc.

We get clients that send us screenshots but they use their phone to photograph their laptop

I’d buy that, all the others must have asbestos otherwise they’d say they don’t right.

As a Visual Studio Professional user it’s so hard to google help for that too without VSCode leaking into the results.

Get outta here your nuance and critical thinking. /s

I get more done at home cause I’m a chatty guy in the office. But I do like the variety as I do Mon, Wed, Fri at home and Tue and Thur in the office.

Friday is a three hour day too.

Exactly. My car doesn’t have AP, but it does have a shed load of sensors and sometimes it just freaks out about stuff being too close to car for no discernible reason. Really freaks me out as I’m like what you see bro we just driving down the motorway.

You’re forgetting the person is also making the streets a cleaner place, having fun ( I enjoy picking litter), great for mental health, and choose your own hours.

It’s the snow for me. The dog is great but the snow doesn’t sell it.

Website literally has mesh in the name, no need to guess. Then would you believe it, but if you open the site it tells you more information and mentions the internet several times.

Ironic considering you should get out more as clearly your worldview is severely warped.

Christ you seem that dense that you could be mistaken for a black hole.

Sure a lot can be assholes or whatever, but it doesn’t mean we just assume everybody is. Reddit had a mince problem, it’s likely you came from Reddit, during API gate I would guess, you happy be called a mince too?

Then you’re going in about Jan 6th like it’s apples to apples. I didn’t say all single digit millionaires are good. Furthermore many if those people did that not because they’re rich but because they have fucked up political beliefs.

Good for you. Shame unit someone assumed you were a slumlord too wouldn’t it. Personally if I earned that much I would be retired once I hit £1M. I also don’t judge people based on a singular purchase, that’s bloody insane and really does seem naive.

I’m not defending anybody, I’m merely pointing out the idiocy of saying all X are Y.

Next time I buy a car I’ll be sure to consult you to ensure that I’m making a choice that fits your world view. Do I need to do this with others things too? As I neglected to reach out when I bought a new camera recently.

Literally met a doctor who owned a Ferrari, it wasn’t a made up thing. To be clear he is a consultant cardiologist.

In fact when I worked for Apple I met many regular rich people who just have decent lives from value jobs and worked hard.

If you think single or double digit millionaires are the problem then you’re misguided. The problem is generational wealth or those with hundreds of millions or billions extracting value from the world.

FYI: A consultant (medical) can earn £100k - £140k per year in the UK. Source Easily enough to finance a Ferrari with low interest or save and buy one, or the shock even lease one.

Who is even saying that? I don’t believe I ever mentioned cost.

Really don’t get this mindset. A doctor can earn enough money to buy a Ferrari and it’s their money to do with as they please.

My issue is with people with obscene wealth, not rich people who work hard and provide actual value to the world.

Honestly I find your viewpoint to be quite naive at best and bitterness at worst.

Painkillers have kicked in now, but I really do want to continue this discussion so I’ll make this as unread and respond tomorrow when I can give your reply the time it deserves and I can be somewhat coherent.

I do apologise for the LLM version, it was in no way because I think you’re stupid and more because I know I have a tendency to digress and in the past that hasn’t been received well so my intention was to have something where the writing style isn’t going to turn people off from the thoughts I’m trying to convey.

Have a nice evening and I’ll hit you with a reply tomorrow. 😊.

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Brother the fact you use those terms indicates you are an insecure pos. Can bet my last pound you wouldn’t talk to me like that to my face, just because I’ve got empathy for days doesn’t mean I’m above putting a bigot on the ground.

Be better my guy, if only for the sake of your mental health. Hatred is a killer and will just drag you down.

If you ever want to chat civilly about anything hmu, I got you. I believe people can change if given some compassion and actually interact with the people you hate.

Where’s the line drawn here?

Like I never like to label all X as Y for a start, but if you own a Porsche are you a wanker? I own a Mercedes I am am I a wanker?

Is it sports car with little utility? I have many things that make me happy with little utility.

Edit: Removed the Freudian slip 😦

Here is a rewrite of this stream of consciousness that an LLM helped with which might be more palatable. I am neurodivergent and stream of consciousness is my bag, writing isn’t. So LLMs have massive utility for here.

I get where you’re coming from, but honestly, that’s not been my experience at all. I’ve used LLMs both at home and at work, and while they’re not magic, they’re absolutely useful—especially if you already know what you’re doing and want to skip the repetitive or boilerplate stuff.

At home, for example, I set up a Docker-based media server. I’ve done it before, but using the LLM meant I didn’t have to dive into docs or endless Google threads. It saved time and frustration.

At work, we use an internal tool powered by an LLM to generate the standard boilerplate we always need in enterprise apps. So when we add a new model in C#, it auto-generates the typical queries, mutations, GraphQL setup, and React admin pages. Just saving that hour or so per model adds up—on a project with 30+ models, that’s a whole week of dev time. And since it caches results unless the model changes, it’s fast and reliable (though yeah, sometimes it messes up the DB table file and we rerun it).

It’s also great for common patterns—like useMemo for filtering dropdowns in React. I can write it manually or copy it from somewhere else, but why not just add a comment like // filtered clients and let it handle it? Same with array sorting. I know how, but my time is better spent on the harder stuff.

And that’s the key point: LLMs free up brain space. They don’t replace learning or experience. I had to integrate with Sage using the Intacct SDK recently—had no clue where to start. The LLM helped me explore the API, figure out how to get Reporting Periods, Nominals, etc., and build a small test app. Once I understood it, then I integrated it into the product.

It accelerates my learning, and my boss—who is ridiculously smart and built this whole system—can spend his time on the harder problems instead of walking me through step-by-step. Even he uses LLMs, and if someone of his calibre is doing that, I see no reason not to.

LLMs aren’t doing the work for me. They’re just making me more efficient, especially on the stuff I already know how to do. And they help me ramp up quicker when learning something new.