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by lowbloodsugar 78 days ago
For ICs the midwit meme applies here. The really terrible programmers love AI because they aren’t smart enough to determine how bad the code it generates for them really is. The middling programmers are just smart enough to know that it generates bad code for them, and that confirms their world view and they stop there. The great programmers sit down and figure out how to use it effectively.