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Re:AI Is Making Developers Dumb by lurking_swe on Sunday March 16, 2025 @06:51PM (#43383332)
except we can guarantee (with tests) that the generated instructions from the compiler are bug free 99% of the time. Pretty big difference there.
Re:AI Is Making Developers Dumb by sanswork on Sunday March 16, 2025 @09:15PM (#43384233)
The tool currently being bad doesn't matter to the argument of whether or not they make devs dumb.
Re:AI Is Making Developers Dumb by lurking_swe on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:12AM (#43385142)
if i can one day have a similar level of confidence in LLM output, as i do in a compiler, then i will also call it an abstraction. until then…i wait. :)

But i agree, it’s unrelated to devs being dumb.