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_pdp_yesterday at 9:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

It is wrong. The new/old skill is reverse engineering.

If the majority of the code is generated by AI, you'll still need people with technical expertise to make sense of it.


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CamperBob2yesterday at 10:09 PM

Not really. Got some code you don't understand? Feed it to a model and ask it to add comments.

Ultimately humans will never need to look at most AI-generated code, any more than we have to look at the machine language emitted by a C compiler. We're a long way from that state of affairs -- as anyone who struggled with code-generation bugs in the first few generations of compilers will agree -- but we'll get there.

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