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Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by andy_ppp on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:39PM (#30181895)
I would actually argue the programmers job has never been 100% writing the code, it’s always been interpreting, fixing and decoding the ideas of others.
Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by tluyben2 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:16PM (#30182526)
The older I get the more I see it has not been about programming for most tasks for quite a long time. In the early 80s it was a bit more (but not even much more); at that time as well I spent most of my time debugging and changing behaviour slightly (but in a lot of pages) instead of just cranking out huge bags of code.
Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by bcrosby95 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:27PM (#30182698)
I would argue that we figured this out over 50 years ago but oddly enough some people still hold onto the idea.