[mediaman]

A lot of people believe that programming is the typing of odd sequences of characters into a computer.

To them, it seems LLMs are also perfectly capable of typing odd sequences of characters.

The idea that SWEs do actual structured problem solving is mostly native to industry insiders.

[daveguy]

Thank you for this. A very well stated explanation of a major reason the hype is soo off base from the people doing the work every day.