A “Matplotlib” Adventure.
Looking for clues in Python Programming Productivity – “AI” Sludge vs. Clear Exposition.
Python Documentation
There’s abstruse and incomprehensible and surely most formal Python documentation for the average business technician/knowledge-worker/hacker/scribbler/programmer meanders somewhere in between. Communities emerged to cope StackOverflow, Youtube etc. No “RTFM” for these guys and gals, more “DIY”. Ten years ago, quite a shock for a geezer thrown in to the pool of methods and objects. Where’s the register? And pythonistas were you taught not to comment your code.
Keep it Simple Stupid (“KISS”)
A golden rule of computer science etc. used to be “KISS”. Was this ever a rule, more an observation? Like Moore’s Law a bit of a misnomer.
Assume “KISS” is still a rule (like “GIGO”).
If “KISS” is a rule does “AI” simplify?
Like for example, a Youtube video by somebody who, with clear and concise explanation, very easily makes things simple. Somebody who knows how to educate. Corey Schafer that’s you.
Or a well-written note that matches the “what” with the “how”, featuring more than the occasional snippet.
Productivity doing hard things will not be improved by throwing more at the wall, the default response of an “AI” prompt.
Perhaps we should be grateful. Any idiot can make the complex complicated. Making the complex simple requires a mind.
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