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Re:Ask HN: Why do HN programmers seem happy about losing the... by rorylaitila on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @04:23PM (#44437683)
Getting tokens on screen has not been the bottleneck for me in a long time. Knowing what to build and how to evolve an application from the current state into a future state, while keeping it short term, medium term, and long term coherent, is the bottleneck.

Until the AI can take the prompt: "Improve the product so that it will generate more sales, satisfy the government, and not piss off existing users", it is not going to replace me. For every task less than that, it does marginally improve my workflow.

For any programmers out there who are so untalented that they barely exist as more than a human token generator, they are indeed at risk.

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