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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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Abstract Equilibrium 10mo ago

I think we might be giving too much credit to legacy programmers, and throwing the AI-assisted generation of programmers prematurely under the bus.

AI programmers will necessarily ask good questions, and create good context around their prompts (if they're to be judged as "skilled"). They might become the greatest requirement writers in the history of the field, where we've endured absurd mediocrity for decades.

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