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by TimByte 18 hours ago
If programming were just about typing text, the profession would have disappeared already. In practice most of the work involves understanding requirements, analyzing constraints, finding trade-offs, and fixing problems before they hit production. AI is still noticeably worse at all that than it is at generating code.

At the end of the day it's just a tool. If someone enjoys building things, AI expands their capabilities rather than taking them away. Right now one developer can put together what used to require a small team. To me that sounds like an argument for learning it, not against it