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How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

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  1. geraldwhen · · focus · HN ↗
    It's over. LLMs can produce any algorithm, any tech stack, any concept in seconds, minutes, or hours.

    Writing code is like trying to build a house without powertools. Could you do it? Sure. But no one ever will, for most values of no one.

    1. 112233 · · focus · HN ↗
      it can not not? moreover, it can totally ruin existing invariants, introduce dead code, falsify tests and sabotage further work by poisoning comments and documentation in a few hours.

      Power tools cannot "produce any house in hours"

      1. na1026 · · focus · HN ↗
        Don't concede the "power tools" analogy. LLM are not capable of building maintainable software.
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