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Re:Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated by picafrost on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:39PM (#47480652)
So much of society's intellectual talent has been allocated toward software. Many of our smartest are working on ad-tech, surveillance, or squeezing as much attention out of our neighbors as possible.

Maybe the current allocation of technical talent is a market failure and disruption to coding could be a forcing function for reallocation.

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Re:Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated by oblio on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:41PM (#47480672)
Those are business goals that don't just go away because tech changes.
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Re:Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated by fritzo on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:53PM (#47481409)
Those business goals will soon realize they need more electricity. More brains will be devoted to power generation.
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Re:Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated by picafrost on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:46PM (#47480713)
Of course. But LLMs may subtract the need for top talent to be working on them.
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Re:Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated by tossandthrow on Sunday March 22, 2026 @04:27PM (#47481792)
Likely, but through regulation, not AI
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