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limaoscarjuliettoday at 2:17 PM1 replyview on HN

"[...] bottleneck isn't in writing the code. It is in reading and understanding the code". 100% agreed! Furthermore, the more code is generated by AI, the fewer people will actually understand it!


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CharlesWtoday at 2:47 PM

Generally, software engineers already have little to no understanding of the code that's actually being executed. We're so used to high- and higher-level abstractions like C, Go, Python, and JavaScript that we forget that we're already working with mostly-deterministic symbolism in a process that more closely resembles invoking magic spells than writing machine code. One more level of abstraction is not the end of software engineering.

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