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Re:I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot by qsort on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:41PM (#37783297)
> People just convince themselves they won't be able to.

As they say, there are two kinds of people: those who think they can program and those who think they cannot, and they are both right.

I'm not on the LLM hype train either, but if they can get more people involved with programming that's genuinely awesome! Everyone has to start somewhere, is typing random stuff into Turbo C or whatever else was the "first contact" point of your generation really any better?

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Re:I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot by ianbutler on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:54PM (#37783466)
Right exactly, for me It was https://www.byond.com/ with their C like language Dream. Had their manual open on the left and their game editor on the right and when I made the low quality fireball move for the first time, the rest, as they say, is history.

If, for this next generation, it's an LLM on Replit, that's genuinely awesome.

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