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"You understand code a lot better if you write it than if you read it."

"But if an AI takes away the writing of a code, .... people will understand it much moor poorly".

"Axiomatically a bad thing."

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@urlyman counterpoint: I can't remember the structure of what I wrote 3 months ago.

I mean yes, I wrote good commit messages and the code is factored relatively well but at my age, that was another person.

@rgarner true.

ai as helper/supporter is good over the short term.

But I don’t see that prevailing over the medium to long term

@urlyman its use cases are remarkably limited. It's little more than a slightly better search engine that might imagine the seeds of what's possible into being. But you have to do the work.

And I'm rationing my usage. If search engines still worked I wouldn't use it at all.

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