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somewhereoutthyesterday at 10:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Agreed. Many of the suggestions are pretty much code it yourself, but without actually tapping the individual keys.

Furthermore, and more generally, one of the great things about (traditional) coding is that it allows 'thinking through making' - by building something you learn more about the problem and thus how best to solve it. Code generation just leaves you with reviewing, which is less powerful in this way I believe. See also 'thinking through writing [prose]'.


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realusernametoday at 3:25 AM

I said it since the very first video of somebody who built a login page with it. They kept adding more and more constraints and at some point it's just coding but with extra steps.

It doesn't mean those tools do not have value though but they're not capable of "coding ", in the sense we mean in the industry, and generating code isn't coding.