danzania

Could you elaborate on why you think emotional attachment to an inanimate object is unhealthy? This seems as old as time.

I think in the long run, they will be developed for kids, kids will grow up with them and they will be their best friends. No, this is not the universe I wanted to be in, but this is the future we’re heading for.

There’s certainly some mental illness around, especially on this topic. However it’s also important to consider what if it isn’t? AI companions are projected to be a huge market, and I’ll be damned if a kid didn’t develop a strong emotional bond to a companion it grows up with.

I guess it’ll only be a matter of time, friend.

The entshitification of relationships?

Yeah that’s a great point – the dataframe is in a sense a class or object standardized for data analysis. Its flexibility (like being able to store arrays or dicts even) obviates the need in most cases for a user-written class.

For me it depends on the use case. If I’m designing something with an interface for someone downstream to use, I’ll usually define (data)classes even if I have a functional interface.

For data science/modeling/notebooks I usually wouldn’t define classes.

I think it also depends on your team; if everyone else is a functional programmer and you’re writing classes or vice versa, this will undoubtedly create frictions.