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ai is minting a whole new generation of programmers. They will be dependent on machines yes, but if they never would have got into programming otherwise then maybe it’s not too bad.

There is one thing they will not experience: trial and error and figuring out the right way to do things leading to deep understanding of how to structure programs.

Instead they will just get ai to structure the program, and if something goes wrong they will get the ai to fix the structure. Code structure just becomes an artifact of the generation.

There is a shallowness to this, but maybe programming was never supposed to be a thing that humans dove deep into. It’s way too abstract and difficult to do correctly anyways.

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Derek Ross 10mo ago 💬 1

AI is just another tool in a programmer's arsenal. Eventually, you'll have programmers that are just expert AI promoters and communicators.

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Jeroen Ubbink 10mo ago

It's just an evolution like going from punched cards to doing assembly, going from horses to cars or living under the sky or in a cave to living under a roof.

The essentials stay the same it's just that the building blocks to create something more advanced and more complex are now complete methods (or more) instead of input character by character.