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wekyesterday at 6:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

What an excellent article by a smart, humble, still-learning person!

Favorite quote:" There are a whole bunch of reasons I’m not scared that my career as a software engineer is over now that computers can write their own code, partly because these things are amplifiers of existing experience. If you know what you’re doing, you can run so much faster with them. [...]

I’m constantly reminded as I work with these tools how hard the thing that we do is. Producing software is a ferociously difficult thing to do. And you could give me all of the AI tools in the world and what we’re trying to achieve here is still really difficult. [...]"


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alishaykyesterday at 10:35 PM

What do you do if you don't have that existing experience? How do you build it up?

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keeganpoppenyesterday at 10:03 PM

it’s sad that i had to triple-read this to determine you weren’t being sarcastic. sad for whom? i don’t know. but the amplifier take is exactly the right one.

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