Post #2881270
2026-03-20 00:04 UTC
@codebyjeff@hachyderm.io
Maurice Wilkes, an early computing pioneer, reflecting on the early days, said, "I remember the exact moment when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
With AI-generated code, programmers give up the creative pleasure and joy of writing code, and multiply the amount of tedious and difficult debugging instead. What a bargain.
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@codebyjeff@hachyderm.io 2026-03-20 01:16
@tom@subdued.social we also give up a lot of the tedious boilerplate parts of our jobs... I think it can be argued both ways, depending on how you personally are using it