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Ask HN: Are AI dev tools lowering the barrier to entry for creating software?

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Re: Ask HN: Are AI dev tools lowering the barrier to entry for creating software?

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I see more impact in the amateur programmer space than in no programming experience space.

It’s very viable to glue together things if you have a vague concept of how it works. If you can’t read code at all you’ll be stuck the second you encounter a bug the AI can’t solve

Actually just built something with pandas this morning without having much knowledge about it. Just lots of print() iterations and AI till the dataframes do what I want

Re: Ask HN: Are AI dev tools lowering the barrier to entry for creating software?

#32
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