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by traderj0e 48 days ago
Yeah but it's funnier to blame the AI. And when the "real coders don't use AI" people get pissed off at the joke, you double down instead.
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Back in early days of personal computers, the instructor told us that a computer just does what you tell tell it to do, though not always what you thought, and making a mistake thousands of times a second hurts a lot.
That's still how the intro programming or CS classes start, "computer is a fast idiot" and some examples of it taking things overly literally