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by loosetypewriter 638 days ago
If you are an experienced coder, then you know which tasks are useless chores. It's a different issue for newdevs who will be learning to code with tool assistance.
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And parsing text is quite foundational. Although today I would need to think hard to find a language, where you don't have a ready to use XML/JSON parser ready at hand.

Perhaps there is no reference implementation in Pancake Stack, but your language has to be quite arcane to not have something available.

New devs, by the time they will become senior devs, the tools will be 10x better. 10x in 3 years is very conservative, it may as well be 100x, not even considering runaway intelligence.

In 2 days, GPT, Claude and Llama 3 helped me solve 4 different problems. 1) I wanted to load in a webpage a json file, parse and read it, using Rust + webassebly. GPT solved it in 10 minutes. 2) Then i wanted to use this code and make it as a Chrome browser extension. GPT solved it as well. 3) Then i wanted to parse recursively directories with Rust source code, run tree-sitter queries, get the points and print matches, not with cli but using the libraries. GPT solved it in an hour. 4) Right now i finished analyzing a git repo, and fetching all branches and commit messages using git2. Llama 3 + Claude Sonet solved it in an hour or two.

DHH did an interview yesterday [1] in which he mentions that he will be programming by hand even if everyone else uses A.I. assistance. I think he is pretty smart and he will not be stuck in the era of meaty fingers pressing keyboards to make programs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEy9JhHk6lg