Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?

Post by thangalin » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 7:22 AM UTC

comrade1234 wrote: post #48

Having an AI is like having a dedicated assistant or junior programmer that sometimes has senior-level insights. I use it to do tedious tasks where I don't care about the code - like today I used it to generate a static web page that let me experiment with the spring-ai chat bot code I was writing - basic. But yesterday it was able to track down the cause of a very obscure bug having to do with a pom.xml loading two…

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Post by habinero » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 7:28 AM UTC

mdavid626 wrote: post #78

neversupervised wrote: post #75

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I think you’re a bit behind on your world view. Just because it’s inconvenient to you that non coders can now code, doesn’t make it untrue.

No, they can’t. It has nothing to do with inconvenience. I really like that layman now make these statements - they know better than people working in the industry for decades.

Post by habinero » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 7:30 AM UTC

CollinEMac wrote: post #26

>but like most of their peers now, they only rarely write code. Citation needed. Are most developers "rarely" writing code?

Post by andoando » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC

leptons wrote: post #97

andoando wrote: post #83

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For any non professional work its there for me. Wire up authentication system with sso. done Setup websockets, stream audio from mic, transcribe with elvenlabs. done. Shit that would take me hours takes literally 5 mins.

All that stuff would take me about 5 minutes without AI. Those are things with 10,000 examples all over the web. AI is good at distilling the known solutions. But anything even slightly out of the ordinary, it fails miserably. I'd much rather write that code myself instead of spend an hour convincing an AI to do it for me.

Post by slopinthebag » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 7:46 AM UTC

kansface wrote: post #95

comrade1234 wrote: post #48

Having an AI is like having a dedicated assistant or junior programmer that sometimes has senior-level insights. I use it to do tedious tasks where I don't care about the code - like today I used it to generate a static web page that let me experiment with the spring-ai chat bot code I was writing - basic. But yesterday it was able to track down the cause of a very obscure bug having to do with a pom.xml loading two…

I've generated 250KLoC this week, absolutely no changes in deps or any other shenanigans. I'm not even really trying to optimize my output. I work on plans/proposals with 2 or 3 agents simultaneously in Cursor while one does work, sometimes parallelized. I can't do that in less code and cleaner. I can't do it at all. Don't wait too long.