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JohnMakintoday at 4:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

You're inferring quite a lot from a pretty harmless piece of reporting. Are you sure you're not the one that feels insecure?


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arm32today at 4:20 PM

Everybody, deep breaths. Relax.

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timmytokyotoday at 4:31 PM

In my experience it's the poorest programmers who thrive with LLMs, because it levels them up. They lacked the skills to design and write quality code before AI, and now they feel like they can compete. They get a computer to write all their code and get to attach their name to it. That's why you see such pushback against AI critics from a vocal subset of engineers; they're the ones who weren't very good.

The engineers who critique AI are the ones who see the garbage code the LLMs write. Just look at the source dump for Claude Code; that code was a rat's nest of epic proportions.

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