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Re:Show HN: We are building open-source IDE powered by AI ag... by BobbyJo on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:10PM (#35445901)
I think the difference here is that code is effectively a description, so there is an extremely tight coupling between describing the task and the task itself.

You could tell me, in the most painstaking detail, what you want me to paint, and I still couldn't paint it. You can take any random person on the street and tell them exactly what to type and they'd be able to "program".

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Re:Show HN: We are building open-source IDE powered by AI ag... by eikenberry on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:18PM (#35446587)
That's just picking nits with the metaphor. Change it to a poet or a novelist and it works the same. If you tell a person exactly what to write they are just a fancy typewriter, not a poet or novelist. Same with code.
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