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2011-10-09

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  • While I don’t think the new meaning is incredibly widespread yet, it’s not uncommon for words to change meaning over time. I wouldn’t be surprised if a decade or two from now, the original meaning has been mostly forgotten.

  • Err, what do you mean they cannot do anything? Where are you meeting these programmers??

  • I mean, two of them are cloud vendors. The rest just seem like very boring components of a (somewhat) modern data pipeline.

  • What are the common terms for those? (I have heard "devbox" across multiple companies, and I'm not in the LLM world enough to know the other parts.)

  • I've worked for years at companies that only use Google Sheets.

    For 99% of people (sometimes we let Finance folks have an Excel license), it's more than enough. Google Apps Script is also reasonably useful, and the newer Smart Chips are a nice addition.

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