I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by mostlysimilar on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:16PM (#48508294)

Call me old fashioned but I take pride in things I work hard to achieve. I think it's embarrassing to be proud of AI output of any kind, be it software or art or writing.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by rpdillon on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:55PM (#48508742)

But you're acting like everything that you use AI to build is easy to achieve, and that doesn't seem to be true.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by acheron on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:20PM (#48509020)

Hope all your programs are written in machine code. Wouldn’t want to be proud of compiler output.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by mostlysimilar on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:11PM (#48509466)

I mean yeah? Wouldn't you be more proud of your ability to write a program in machine code than you would in assembly? Or more proud of assembly than of C? Or more proud of C than of Python?

Each stage takes greater effort, effort which creates skill. Those hard-earned skills are accomplishments to be proud of.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by bigstrat2003 on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:44PM (#48512231)

When LLMs are remotely comparable to compilers, your analogy might hold water. But in the world of today, it holds none.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by senordevnyc on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:23PM (#48509042)

And I’m sure ctoth’s non-coder friends will be just devastated to hear that some random online account is embarrassed because they’re proud of a little app they created for fun.

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