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acedTrextoday at 3:39 AM1 replyview on HN

> where the world’s best programmers and technologists are tied up fiddling with transformers and datasets and evals so that the world’s worst programmers can slap together temperature converters and insecure twitter clones

This statement is incredibly accurate


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chiitoday at 5:38 AM

> slap together temperature converters and insecure twitter clones

because those "best programmers" don't want to be making temperature converters nor twitter clones (unless they're paid mega bucks). This enables the low paid "worst" programmers to do those jobs for peanuts.

It's an acceptable outcome imho.

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