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by nkuttler 1099 days ago
Somebody who knows absolutely nothing about a language can also copy and paste together a working solution. I'd trust that about as much as something ChatGPT spit out.
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Somebody who knows absolutely nothing don't know what to search for to end up on the correct stack-overflow to copy and paste.

If they know what result they want, they can iterate with an LLM as the guide.

I could literally google "how to sort a list in brainfuck" and copy and paste a solution right now. I specifically said somebody who doesn't know the language, not somebody who knows nothing.
Is it not mind blowing that someone who doesn't know how to code or at least doesn't write code professionally is able to still produce something valuable that improves their daily life through code?

We spend so much time building tools with code that other people can use to write code - ITTT, Airtable, Retool etc.

Now we can cut out these middlemen!