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How much code was "written by" autocomplete before LLMs came along? From my experience, LLM integration is advanced autocomplete. 25% is believable, but misleading.
Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @08:51PM (#35269189)
Funny, but also alarming how little support it has to report something as true.
Re:PinePhone Pro Announced on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:33PM (#28880452)
The pool of programmers has grown. There are more good programmers than ever, but the barrier to entry is also lower. It isn't necessary to pass through that kind of trial by fire anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/c/MoritzKlein0

This guy has a channel where he builds up analog synths from basic components. He does a great job explaining the intuition.

Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:25PM (#27309335)
Highly entertaining stories https://moxie.org/stories.html (Moxie Marlinspike)
You don't need 10s of thousands of dollars worth of tools to build something.