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Re:I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the th... by gitlinuxgreat on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @05:46PM (#46968076)
Using a LLM to program is simply another abstraction level. Just how C was to assembly.
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Re:I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the th... by snazz on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @08:07PM (#46969448)
I feel like the nondeterminism makes LLM-assisted programming a different sort of concept than using a compiler. Your prompt isn't your source code.
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Re:I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the th... by pjmlp on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @02:46AM (#46972076)
Fortran to Assembly.
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Re:I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the th... by pklausler on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @07:01PM (#46982990)
The transition from assembly to C, as I remember it, didn't involve using automated IP theft of scraped licensed source code to generate slop that no human has understood up until it's thrown at a code reviewer, though.
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