I got a MacBook Pro M2. It’s a good piece of hardware, MacOS was kinda annoying at first since it’s my first MacBook but I got the hang of it and it’s basically a normal desktop environment to me right now and I can’t see that changing significantly in the near future, I don’t think AI is gonna move that fast as to completely eliminate the need for typical PC desktop environments.

I’m not sure if that’ll happen any time soon, they’d lose out on the IT professionals, audio professionals etc.

I got one just this year and it certainly doesn’t feel like an iPad at all.

Not sure what you’re talking about, a whole lot of people use MacBooks, I don’t think their market share dropped significantly. Desktop Macs, sure maybe but I think even that won’t completely die out.

I’ve had pretty much the opposite experience. My friend has a macbook that he drops all the time and still works.

Also it’s not like other brands are immune to denting, it’s just kind of the nature of the material.

Kinda agree on the keyboard but I got used to it and also most brands have that type of keyboards nowadays anyway.

ThinkPads are far superior than MacBooks for longevity

Not sure that’s true. I have a pretty top-of-the-line ThinkPad (3 years old) and it started falling apart after like a year of regular use. Maybe years ago that was true but nowadays I feel like everybody except maybe Apple has crap build quality.

I’m here for it, it’s already a complete shitshow, might as well go all the way.

Oh that’s definitely going to lead to some hilarious situations but I don’t think we’re gonna see a complete breakdown of the whole IT sector. There’s no way companies/institutions that do really mission critical work (kernels, firmware, automotive/aerospace software, certain kinds of banking/finance software etc.) will let AI write that code any time soon. The rest of the stuff isn’t really that important and isn’t that big of a deal it if breaks for a few hours/days because the AI spazzed out.

Ah ok I guess I misread that. My point is that by itself it’s not gonna help you write either better or shittier code than you already do.

I don’t think it’s gonna go that way. In my experience the bigger the chunk of code you make it generate the more wrong it’s gonna be, not just because it’s a larger chunk of code, it’s gonna be exponentially more wrong.

It’s only good for generating small chunks of code at a time.

It actually doesn’t have to be. For example the way I use Github Copilot is I give it a code snippet to generate and if it’s wrong I just write a bit more code and the it usually gets it right after 2-3 iterations and it still saves me time.

The trick is you should be able to quickly determine if the code is what you want which means you need to have a bit of experience under your belt, so AI is pretty useless if not actively harmful for junior devs.

Overall it’s a good tool if you can get your company to shell out $20 a month for it, not sure if I’d pay it out of my own pocket tho.