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Re:Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max by discreteevent on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:08PM (#45996386)
> so code was always more “writing” than “gears” to me… It was ALWAYS “magic.”

> I suddenly realized why half of all developers hate AI-assisted coding (I am in the other half).

Thanks for this. It helps me a lot to understand your half. I like my literature and music as much as the next person but when it comes to programming it's all about the mechanics of it for me. I wonder if this really does explain the split that there seems to be in every thread about programming and LLMs

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Re:Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max by pmarreck on Thursday November 20, 2025 @10:11PM (#46000808)
Can you tell when code is “beautiful”?

That is an artful quality, not an engineering one, even if the elegance leads to superior engineering.

As an example of beauty that is NOT engineered well, see the quintessential example of quicksort implemented in Haskell. Gorgeously simple, but not performant.

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