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Re: Integrating AI

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AI coding assistants are changing how we work, but they're not replacing the core skills that make a developer. What matters most is our ability to hold complex systems in our minds and think through their implications.

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post #2

AI coding assistants are changing how we work, but they're not replacing the core skills that make a developer. What matters most is our ability to hold complex systems in our minds and think through their implications.

> not replacing the core skills that make a developer

so far

Re: Integrating AI

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post #2

AI coding assistants are changing how we work, but they're not replacing the core skills that make a developer. What matters most is our ability to hold complex systems in our minds and think through their implications.

> not replacing the core skills that make a developer so far

yep, they didn't do even this a few years back

Re: Integrating AI

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AI coding assistants are changing how we work, but they're not replacing the core skills that make a developer. What matters most is our ability to hold complex systems in our minds and think through their implications.

Has your mind ever held a system so complex, it wouldn't fit in two million tokens? My hasn't.

Re: Integrating AI

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AI coding assistants are changing how we work, but they're not replacing the core skills that make a developer. What matters most is our ability to hold complex systems in our minds and think through their implications.

Has your mind ever held a system so complex, it wouldn't fit in two million tokens? My hasn't.

Has your LLM ever known just the right next token that should come after 2 million other tokens? Mine hasn't.

Re: Integrating AI

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post #2

AI coding assistants are changing how we work, but they're not replacing the core skills that make a developer. What matters most is our ability to hold complex systems in our minds and think through their implications.

Has your mind ever held a system so complex, it wouldn't fit in two million tokens? My hasn't.

At the right level of abstraction, yes.

Re: Integrating AI

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post #2

AI coding assistants are changing how we work, but they're not replacing the core skills that make a developer. What matters most is our ability to hold complex systems in our minds and think through their implications.

Has your mind ever held a system so complex, it wouldn't fit in two million tokens? My hasn't.

Easily, I have a somewhat working understanding of the SAP version we run in my head, LLMs love hallucinating columns or endpoints that do not exist. I‘m sure the full SAP documentation easily clears 2 mil tokens. And thats not even touching our own codebase.
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