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chpatrickyesterday at 9:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

Typing the code was never the interesting part.


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adamredwoodstoday at 12:44 AM

>> Typing the code was never the interesting part.

Code is fascinating! An abstract language to compile to program a CPU. So many ways to do this!

Now we're using natural language, which at times is extremely verbose. "[{}]" versus "array of objects", for example.

qalmakkayesterday at 9:44 PM

For me it definitely was

jplusequaltyesterday at 9:21 PM

>Typing the code was never the interesting part.

But solving hard problems and developing systems intuition was. If you're trying to tell me that people working on code bases predominantly written by AI are still solving hard problems themselves, or understand the systems the AI is building, I think they're lying to themselves.

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