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I think that's my fundamental difference with the author. I only write programs I actually need. I enjoy the outcome more than the process.
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Copying is not theft.
Can we get that added to the US Constitution and the UN Declaration of Human Rights?
I don't think copyright should exist at all, but conflating infringement with theft helps no one. Well, maybe Disney and other copyright empires.
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If a computer is a bicycle for the mind I think LLMs are a unicycle for the computer.. That’s my own personal take on it anyway.
Intriguing. Like the computer instantiated a wheel and rolls off by itself, no humans needed?
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I think some sort of visual paradigm is where we will end up. Something like Star Trek, where the system architecture and modules are visually represented in 3D space, and you see how the organization changes with realtime low-latency animation representing the changes as they are made. So you are still in control but just at a higher level. I see some prototypes and weak implementations of this sort of thing but sur…
The problem with all existing GUI coding system is that they make it really hard to make anything other than the types of things they were designed to make. You could do it, but you have to leave the path and get into the weeds of how the system works, which usually has several layers of opinionated code structures on top of the underlying language it's compiling to. An AI visual/GUI coding system might be able to ad…
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I would say any programmer has found themselves so deep in the metaphorical woods that they forgot what they were actually trying to achieve in the first place. For example, you start because your boss told you to implement a new feature, but you realized there was no module you could place the feature in, then by looking at the existing module structure you realized it had become completely unsuitable in general, th…
That's called yak shaving.
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> Poor coders have always existed. You're not the first and won't be the last. Did you get so emotionally hurt by another person saying they didn't want to actually type code anymore, that you felt the need to tell them they're likely a "poor coder"? You can still continue to type code if you'd like, no need to put others down because you prefer a different way of working.
So we are reduced to code monkeys mindlessly re-typing what an LLM wrote to increase potential understanding... Whatever this approaches, it is not a state of software engineering I find desirable.
I think some sort of visual paradigm is where we will end up. Something like Star Trek, where the system architecture and modules are visually represented in 3D space, and you see how the organization changes with realtime low-latency animation representing the changes as they are made. So you are still in control but just at a higher level. I see some prototypes and weak implementations of this sort of thing but sur…