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by notnullorvoid 20 days ago
No defense for not writing or reading code if want to call yourself a software engineer or programmer.

However I do think there is reason to use Java or Python (as much as I loathe both) they have GC, and it'd be a lot easier for AI to fuck up memory safety in something like assembly or C.

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I concur.

One has to program computers to be a computer programmer. If one just prompts LLMs, they are a software prompter. I think both can fit under the title of a software developer or perhaps even software engineer.