The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

Re:The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate P... by cmiles74 on Saturday February 28, 2026 @09:33AM (#47195830)

Isn’t that the hard part? If the tasks are small enough and well defined, where’s the win over just writing the code right there and then?

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Re:The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate P... by flagos10 on Saturday February 28, 2026 @11:00AM (#47196861)

You can use an LLM to generate that list of tasks.

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Re:The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate P... by snackerblues on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:19PM (#47199772)

And how does a new grad that's never actually programmed know whether that list of tasks makes sense?

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Re:The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate P... by empath75 on Saturday February 28, 2026 @10:52AM (#47196762)

Well claude can also refine it into smaller tasks and that’s where you can fix those major problems in production issues.

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Re:The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate P... by edgyquant on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:31AM (#47207037)

It’s the hard part which is why these tools are so great, the writing of code was the tedious part

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