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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by dkarl on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:15AM (#50467529)
This sounds pointlessly elitist to me. Those "dumb" developers can do a fine job of solving a problem well enough for a limited context, which is what they're paid for. If we limited ourselves to software that emerged from "good decisions that lead to more good decisions with increasing ease and clarity," then we wouldn't have much software at all. Your doctor's office would still run on paper files.

But who knows, maybe AI will get good enough to meet your standards even though most humans don't.

Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by sublinear on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:37PM (#50471071)
I'm not talking about paid work.

Not every project has to be "elitist", but if the goal is to do the best work to serve a particular use case you can call it whatever you want. It doesn't change the fact that the best work has to be done.