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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by bee_rider on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:23PM (#43015452)
The real hardcore experts should be writing libraries anyway, to fully take advantage of their expertise in a tiny niche and to amortize the cost of studying their subproblem across many projects. It has never been easier to get people to call your C library, right? As long as somebody can write the Python interface…

Numpy has delivered so many FLOPs for BLAS libraries to work on.

Does anyone really care if you call their optimized library from C or Python? It seems like a sophomoric concern.

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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by rootnod3 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:02PM (#43015941)
I think the problem is that with the over-reliance on LLMs, that expertise of writing the foundational libraries that even other languages rely on, is going away. That is exactly the problem.
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