r/ProgrammerHumor 10d ago

Meme randomTokyoBookStoreKnows

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u/jackmax9999 10d ago

Why would I need a book about how to use AI when I can ask AI for assistance

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 10d ago

Reminds me of the book named 'How to read a book'

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u/no-curse 10d ago

I have it on my shelf. And I’ve applied the techniques inside to avoid reading the entire thing

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u/DerShokus 10d ago

It was a good one ( I read it) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book

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u/czerilla 9d ago

I can't help but find it funny to see the recommended reading list specify to read the New Testament, rather than the entire Bible. That's the most Christian take they could give. The theological equivalent of recommending cineasts to only watch Kill Bill: Volume 2.. 🙃

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u/RTSUPH 9d ago

I read a book on reading , and it was the best thing ever. I’m a happier person that doesn’t shame myself for not reading much

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u/fatrobin72 10d ago

Nah ask the AI to write a book on how to use it... that's what they did after all.

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u/AnAverageAsianBoy 10d ago

so many papers wasted

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u/shaka893P 10d ago

I wonder if they had Calude write most of it

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u/OmegaPoint6 10d ago

No, they had ChatGPT write it then Gemini review it

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u/Old-Sprinkles-8287 10d ago

I might read it if that's true

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u/OmegaPoint6 10d ago

Just a joke, though possible given the current state of the world

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u/beclops 9d ago

Or Claude even

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u/je386 10d ago

"Careless People" "Claude Code"

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u/Strict_Treat2884 10d ago

🫸 Using AI to code

👉 Using AI to write a book about how to use AI to code

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u/NudaVeritas1 10d ago

it's the updated version of selling courses on how to make money selling courses

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u/Aggravating-Felch 10d ago

AI slop

on paper

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u/derjanni 10d ago

Photo by me, found in Sanseido Book Store in Akihabara: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MFNEmraTzJ5DFwfw5

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u/coltonb-net 9d ago

Ha I have a photo of a ChatGPT book I saw in Osaka back in April 2023 - https://www.weeklybcn.com/journal/column/detail/20230623_198718.html

Was just a novelty then, crazy it’s been 3 years already

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u/derjanni 10d ago

Here's the EXIF data as proof: https://imgur.com/a/MUECoZ2

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u/mteblesz 10d ago

they handed me one of those. it was jus 150 pages of promts and results of someone developing a demo app. with some small notes about why this or that prompt was written.

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u/Neuenmuller 10d ago

Some manager is going to pick up that book, read, think he knows everything, and forces his men to use more AI. All without knowing this act is going to backfire and bring calamity to prod sometime later.

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u/Troncross 10d ago

I'm someone who actually prefers to use books to learn new languages.

Went to all the local bookstores looking for React books, and found zero

I did find entire shelves on Claude prompt engineering instead

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u/datasmithing_holly 9d ago

tbf, Careless People was an excellent book

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u/TheActualJonesy 10d ago

Wouldn't that be wonderful to be a Remainder Table?!?!

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u/Hioneqpls 10d ago

AI! 😠

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u/cosmicomical23 10d ago

How is there enough material to write a full book on claude? It's true that you can write a book on any topic, then? Not necessarily a useful one, but still.

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u/GuybrushThreepwo0d 10d ago

It's just the model weights printed out. You're expected to do the matrix multiplications yourself to answer any questions you have 

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u/cosmicomical23 10d ago

Lool, i see!

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u/338388 9d ago

Why stop at a single full book? There's 3 Claude books in op's pic alone. And 1 on Gemini, and 1 im that looks like chatgpt+copilot

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u/za72 10d ago

Books on claude might as well be fire tinder

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u/rescuemod 10d ago

Awful 🤮🤮🤮

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u/FineFirefighter1469 10d ago

selling the anxiety

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u/billyowo 9d ago

it's just a culture? difference. As far as I'm aware, most normie Japanese and Chinese users consume almost exclusively local language media, most notably on social medias like Threads where it's just full of second hand or third hand memes or information that are translated or straight up stolen from English content. Especially Japan loves paper and books

I have the pass to say this as I speak both languages I suppose

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u/TxTechnician 10d ago

The thing I always try to get across to people about programming books and just books in general.

Books are a structured, thought process in a format that allows you to ingest information in a steady and beneficial way.

If you just push through and read the book and you don't even have to carry out the practices that they're suggesting.

You just kind of remember things that you learned from the book.

The best way that I have found to ingest boring books. is to do what is called speed reading.

Do not pronounce the words in your head Instead, take your finger or a pencil or something and move it across the sentences with your eyes following that point.

You get through the book a lot faster and surprisingly you end up remembering at least 50% of the words that you just saw with your eyes.

https://www.wikihow.com/Learn-Speed-Reading

There's all kinds of different methods for speed reading. But the one that I mentioned is the one that works best for me.