The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore

Re:The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything... by grumbel on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:14PM (#49881227)

> What is coding?

Opening the IDE and typing program code. With LLMs you don't have to use an IDE, you don't have look at program code, you don't have to care about coding standards. You ask the chatbot to write you a program/feature/fix and chatbot does it.

Is chatting with a chatbot still "coding"?

The part that isn't fully solved is just the software architecture side of things, do you want library A or library B, or write it all from scratch? LLM can do all three, but if you aren't careful it might go down a route that you don't like. But that again can be fixed with chat, "replace A with B", not coding.

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Re:The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything... by tripleee on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:21PM (#49881337)

So lets say you plan the software architecture and take a person off the street, give them a frontier model and tell them to clone Figma given your architecture

How far would they get?

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Re:The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything... by verdverm on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:17PM (#49886799)

As a developer, a good way to reframe this and step away from your own domain expertise, is to read Terence Tao's conversation with ChatGPT and ask yourself "could I have done that?"

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