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by ryanSrich 4000 days ago
> Besides, if a company looked for and used a "free logo generator", would that company really be the type of client you wanted to pick up?

Of course not. That still doesn't mean that the sentiment isn't degrading to designers. (it is)
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egeozcan 4000 days ago
There are are a lot of code generators (written by programmers) and they never seem to offend the programmers. I don't think everything can be automated with satisfying results or in a reasonable time but come on, why would an attempt be offending or degrading?
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dreamfactory2 4000 days ago
In fairness, I often see devs highly offended by automated output, including where it makes no difference whatsoever to performance and maintainability (and particularly so if it improves on any of those). There is plenty of frothing out there about hand-tuned SQL vs ORM and hand-crafted semantic HTML/CSS for example.
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oefrha 3999 days ago
ESR's 17 Unix Rules [1], Rule of Generation:

> Developers should avoid writing code by hand and instead write abstract high-level programs that generate code. This rule aims to reduce human errors and save time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Eric_Raymond.E...

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WhitneyLand 4000 days ago
It see you're downvoted, but I'm not going to pile on and downvote you to invisibility.

I think your perspective is interesting. Wrong, but interesting and probably shared by many others in various fields.

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