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by lasereyes136 1224 days ago
Reminds me of the arguments against 4GLs, Low/No Code, IDEs, Code Coloring, Intellisense, automatic refactoring, and auto-completion.

I used to think you had to be able to work in C to be a "real programmer" and have learned that a lot of good applications have been created by programmers not using C and some that have never used C. Before C it was assembly, and machine code before that.

AI is a tool that all programmers need to learn how to use correctly.

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how can you use a tool potentionally generating hidden bugs into its suggestions "correctly"? and/or legally ambigious output? these are not important for everyone, but they are to me..
Write tests? The skill moves from remembering incantations to being able to define a clear spec in the form of prompts and tests. Basically, programming becomes more declarative.