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9rxlast Wednesday at 11:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's not exactly wrong. Not since the advent of AI systems (a.k.a. compilers) have developers had to worry about code. Instead they type in what they want and the compiler generates the code for them.

Well, except developers have never had to worry about code as even in the pre-compiler days coders, a different job done by a different person, were responsible for producing the code. Development has always been about writing down what you want and letting someone or something else generate the code for you.

But the transition from human coders to AI coders happened like, what, 60-70 years ago? Not sure why this is considered newsworthy now.


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IceDanelast Thursday at 12:31 AM

I'm wondering: do you genuinely not understand how compilers work at all or is there some deeper point to your AI/compiler comparison that I'm just not getting?

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wakawaka28last Thursday at 1:30 AM

Compilers are not AI, and code in high-level languages is still code in the proper sense. It is highly dishonest to call someone who is not a competent software engineer a "developer" even if their job consists entirely of telling actual software engineers or "coders" what to do.