ChatGPT - How Long Till They Realize I’m a Robot?

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I tried it first on December 2nd... ...and slowly the meaning of it started to sink in. It's January 1st and as the new year begins, my future has never felt so hazy. It helps me write code. At my new company I'm writing golang, which is new for me, and one day on a whim I think "hmmm maybe ChatGPT will give me some ideas about the library I need to use." Lo-and-behold it knew the library. It wrote example code. It explained each section in just enough detail. I'm excited....It assists my users. I got a question about Dockerfiles in my teams oncall channel. "Hmmm I don't know the answer to this either"....ChatGPT did. It knew the commands to run. It knew details of how it worked. It explained it better and faster than I could have. Now I'm nervous....It writes my code for me. Now I'm hearing how great Github Copilot is - and it's built by OpenAI too...ok I guess I should give it a shot. I install it, and within minutes it'
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Mono for Android

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I'm excited.

I've recently been looking for a way to motivate myself to learn better software development practices, and stumbled on something called mono. No, I didn't get it from kissing someone. Mono for Android is sort of a Visual Studio plug-in which allows one to develop Android applications in C# ! I'm SOOOO happy about this.

Personally, I learned Java in school and tried out Android development for a couple weeks, and liked it. Unfortunately, Java is going the way of the dinosaur, and it seems that .NET is taking it's place. That's why I decided to pursue learning C# instead of Android.

Now that mono has arrived and (hopefully - I'm updating the API's as I type) works, I can pursue BOTH Android development AND .NET ! Basically this means I can get good at working for the man, and developing for myself.

I'm super excited.

For a brief history of mono's inception, check out this blog:

http://www.koushikdutta.com/search/label/Mono

AND if you're a .NET dev and wanna try it out, the trial version is FREE :

http://mono-android.net/DownloadTrial

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