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by bluefirebrand 343 days ago
> Give an AI to a product manager and their code will be shit. Give it to a good programmer, and they're likely to ask the right questions and verify the code a little bit more so they get better results.

I'm finding the inverse correlation: programmers who are bullish on AI are actually just bad programmers. AI use is revealing their own lack of skill and taste.
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CuriouslyC 343 days ago
You can literally stub out exactly the structure you want, describe exactly the algorithms you want, the coding style you want, etc, and get exactly what you asked for with modern frontier models like o3/gemini/claude4 (at least for well represented languages/libraries/algorithms). The fact that you haven't observed this is an indicator of the shallowness of your experience.
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bluefirebrand 343 days ago
> modern frontier models like o3/gemini/claude4 (at least for well represented languages/libraries/algorithms). The fact that you haven't observed this is an indicator of the shallowness of your experience.

I'm not chasing the AI train to be on the bleeding edge because I have better things to do with my time

Also I'm trying to build novel things, not replicate well represented libraries and algorithms

So... Maybe I'm just holding it wrong, or maybe it's not good at doing things that you can't copy and paste from github or stackoverflow

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