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by otabdeveloper4 45 days ago
Coding has been automated since the very beginning of coding.

The first two programming languages (Fortran and Cobol) were supposed to make coding obsolete because non-coders will now just make software with natural language prompts.

LLMs are a dangerous tool for coding because they are infinite technical debt generators. Ideally only experienced senior developers should be allowed to use them.

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It's amusing to think that context window capability needs to outpace technical debt pileup with LLM development and usage