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by mcrk 20 days ago
Do ppl think that programmers just write code from sratch each time..?!

Even without AI I barely write code. 95% of time are spend setting up integrations, configs, copying & adjusting code from previous projects.

3 comments

+1, I don’t understand who these greenfielders are. Either I wait on the CI to finish, or I’m in a meeting.
I’m old enough to remember coders being made fun of for doing copy-pasting from stackoverflow all day.
And that sort of yak shaving is something LLMs are great at.