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Re:Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem by viraptor on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:08AM (#46868020)
> But you still need to know how to do things properly in general, otherwise the results are bad.

Even that could use some nuance. I'm generating presentations in interactive JS. If they work, they work - that's the result, and I extremely don't care about the details for this use case. Nobody needs to maintain them, nobody cares about the source. There's no need for "properly" in this case.

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Re:Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem by samusiam on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:02PM (#46879319)
Agree. Or internal or personal tooling where it doesn't beg to be perfect and you can (1) verify by observing behavior of the software -- if it works it works, and (2) deal with edge cases as they arise because it's not mission critical.
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