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Re:Gaslight-driven development by xboxnolifes on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:30AM (#44589990)
Does that actually clean up your mental model though? At some number of "reallys" that autocomplete starts to sound like intelligence. Like, what is "taking customer requirements and turning them into working code" if not just really really really really really really really good autocomplete with this mental model?
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Re:Gaslight-driven development by Waterluvian on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:49AM (#44590097)
A lot of people are just doing the job of a really good autocomplete, not being asked to make many, if any, nontrivial decisions in their job.

Taking requirements and making working code is something some models are adequate at. It’s all the stuff around that, which I think holds the value, such as deciding things like when the requirements are wrong.

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