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1. brink · 1791054618 · focus · HN ↗

   I also have found that AI has not lived up to many of its promises and have dialed back what AI gets control of. My projects were turning into unmaintainable messes. The people who say coding is solved aren't paying attention.

   1. bitfilped · 1791056769 · focus · HN ↗

      The people saying programming is solved couldn't program in the first place is what I've noticed. So to them it really does feel solved, things "work" and they don't have to learn what they don't know about programming.

      1. bigstrat2003 · 1791059030 · focus · HN ↗

         There are a couple of notable counterexamples here (nobody sane thinks Carmack doesn't know how to program, for example), but by and large I agree with your observation. The people excited about programming with LLMs are, on average, people who weren't good at programming to begin with. Still, given that these counterexamples do exist I try to avoid painting with an overly broad brush for the sake of nuance.

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