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by theonething 77 days ago
> I'll lose understanding of the code, because I didn't write it.

What about code that other (human) engineers write? Do you not understand that code too because you didn't write it?

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Intersting observation. There is a difference however. Pre-AI each human programmer understood the code they wrote, in general. So there were many humans who understood some part of the code. Poast-AI there will be no humans who understand any code, presumably. Sure we will understand its syntax, but the overall architecture of applications may be so complicated that no human can understand it, in practice.
Have you read Coding machines[0]?

BTW, that guy received an Oscar for coding. Oh, far far have we fallen since those days and how far we have yet to go...

[0]: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/