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Programming is the art of turning fuzzy requirements into hard computer instructions. Translating a poorly defined “want” into code.

As higher-level interfaces emerge, increasingly mediated by AI, the job of programmer is still the same, but increasingly philosophical.

What is it that you (your manager, your customer) really want? What should happen when things go wrong? What does value mean in this context?

These are programming questions in the age of AI. It’s less about syntax, and more about satisfying contextual human desires.

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Troy 1y ago

Those questions have always been a part of software development.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

the cult of ai lol

not one person who espouses such ideas actually writes original algorithms

what you say may apply to building database applications and speeding up common interface generation but it's not gonna make original architecture substantially faster or easier

in my work, the only machine intelligence tool that actually saves me time, sometimes, is machine learning, but it is wrong more than half the time about what i want it to do, often completely disregards semantics

Silence 1y ago

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