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by iLoveOncall 1291 days ago
The fact that the amount of text you have to write is greater than the amount of code AlphaCode writes should reassure programmers afraid that their job will ever be taken over by AI.
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We should really let go of words per minute or typing effort as a useful metric.

Most of our time is spent thinking about what to write not the actual writing.

Also nothing stopping it from being a voice input rather than typing.

That's not what I meant. I'm saying that it is more overall effort to code this way than to code by just writing code.