Subj : Re: Government Re-opened
To   : Ron L.
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Wed Jan 21 2026 10:03 am

 RL>  AT> That's true, but the schools are left leaning anyway. Why pay them to
 RL>  AT> propagate what AI bots can propagate for free?
 RL> 
 RL> Because our goal is to eliminate the Left's influence in education.

That's a great idea but it's a struggle.

 RL> AI does nothing but make the current situation cheaper.

Yea I better not speak too soon or we'll end up getting AI teachers and still pay the same or more in school tax.

 RL> That's pretty much what I was seeing.  It's OK for something like "using
 RL> my code base, write a simple program to count the widgets" and it would
 RL> do it pretty well.  But I could still do it faster because I wouldn't
 RL> have had to review the resulting code.

It will always be better to write stuff yourself first, but when I get into something that I don't feel like reading the manual on (like "How can I make sure this will work on ios?") then I ask Sonnet 4.5 and it gives great advice.

 RL> That's what ESR was saying on X.  AIs to a really good job of "reading
 RL> the manuals and explaining things".

I never heard of him until now but he sounds cool. A non-leftist programmer.

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