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Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by phtrivier on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:13AM (#33852968)
I've seen a couple of articles like this, but they never show the previous prompts to give some awareness of the language, tools, etc...

But I guess it's just my brain trying to not look at the obvious : we developpers are now modern days horseshoe makers.

Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by DeWilde on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:28AM (#33853069)
> we developpers are now modern days horseshoe makers.

Explain?

Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by AkshatJ27 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:38AM (#33853129)
As explained by GPT:

> The comment seems to be expressing the idea that developers are similar to horseshoe makers in that their work, like the work of horseshoe makers, is becoming increasingly obsolete or irrelevant.

Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by DeWilde on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:45AM (#33853188)
My feeling is that people won't be writing code as it is written now. Those that do will likely be the same as horseshoe makers. Instead, you will have new tools and be solving different problems. As mechanics now have taken the role of those in charge of maintaining our primary transportation tool.
Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by trenchgun on Sunday December 04, 2022 @10:59AM (#33854780)
Replicated with ChatGPT: "The statement "we developers are now modern-day horseshoe makers" is a metaphor. It suggests that just as horseshoe makers were once important and in high demand but are now largely obsolete due to technological advancements, developers may eventually become obsolete as well due to advances in technology. In other words, the statement is expressing the idea that the role of developers may become less important or necessary in the future."
Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by dunefox on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:39AM (#33853139)
Near obsolete.
Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ... by nobody5050 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @10:07AM (#33854329)
Hi I wrote the op article. The previous prompts were me copy pasting verbatim 10 line chunks of the spec for my language: https://github.com/randomsoup/sack into the chat box, since the whole spec at once was longer than it would intake as an input.