Re:Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
by threethirtytwo on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:23AM
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YOU still write code. I would say over 65-70% of modern programmers no longer write code. The paradigm shift happened within the last 365 days.
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Re:Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
by esailija on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:16AM
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65-70% "programmers" never wrote code in the first place. Before AI cargo culters just copy pasted code from tutorials, stack overflow, github and so on. With AI they merely continue not writing code.
Programmers still write code. They have enough expertise from actually programming to understand that the untouched output from AI is not good enough to be professionally responsible for.
Re:Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
by threethirtytwo on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @09:39AM
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No. You can't get very far copying and pasting from stack overflow.
I'm talking about legit programmers which are around 90% imho. Out of those programmers 65-70% no longer write code.
Re:Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
by user43928 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:35AM
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At work I still write code, but at home I don't think I wrote anything in months.
There's nothing that I can't tell Claude Opus or GPT 5.5 to do for me instead.
At work, where I don't have cheap AI subscriptions, access to the SOTA, and where code needs to follow conventions more strictly, I still have to write the code by hand often.