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Re:Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers by Lalabadie on Saturday May 24, 2025 @07:38PM (#44084444)
One of my pet hypotheses is that the top X% of Excel users vastly outperform the same bottom % of programmers in getting to usable results.
Re:Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers by fenomas on Saturday May 24, 2025 @10:05PM (#44085010)
Totally agree! I know a guy whose main job is basically to be an Excel expert (nominally he works in logistics), and seeing some of his work convinced me that he's actually a programmer who uses excel as an IDE - akin to visual programming.
Re:Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers by callc on Sunday May 25, 2025 @12:25AM (#44085512)
We should adopt the term “tabular programmers” or “tabular engineers”!