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by commandlinefan 847 days ago
It seems to me that these "advances" actually make programming _harder_, not easier. The 4GLs, no code solutions, and now AI generation make a _lot_ of assumptions about how things should be done, not always correctly. When they do make an incorrect assumption, it's obvious to a human who's done this "by hand" for a few years, but completely inscrutable to somebody who's been trained to trust the computer's judgment implicitly.