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paulpauperyesterday at 7:24 PM5 repliesview on HN

Being a programmer in the era of AI now means configuring the AI and run environments to produce the sought result, than manipulating the code itself. It's like how C runs on top of assembly.


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chowellsyesterday at 9:51 PM

It's nothing at all how like C runs on top of assembly. C has semantics. Code means something without ever being run. You can check in your source code and (assuming it actually follows the C standard and your compiler's documented extensions, which almost no real C code does - C was a horrible example) it will work just as well in a year as it does today.

Try checking in only your prompts and nothing else. Just the parts you actually typed. See how well it works to regenerate the same application next week, let alone next year. Prompts are fundamentally a different sort of thing from code. Do not mix them up.

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j4yavyesterday at 7:39 PM

Being a programmer in the era of AI means not being a programmer

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whateveracctyesterday at 7:27 PM

thanks i hate it

sitzkriegyesterday at 7:39 PM

luckily there are still some people who know and care about actually understanding what is happening. but dwindling. market correction needed to wash larpers out