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esailijatoday at 8:16 AM1 replyview on HN

65-70% "programmers" never wrote code in the first place. Before AI cargo culters just copy pasted code from tutorials, stack overflow, github and so on. With AI they merely continue not writing code. Some people didn't do anything, not even copy paste, see r/overemployed although I have not checked it after AI... maybe it's no longer possible to hold a dev job without actually doing anything.

Programmers still write code. They have enough expertise from actually programming to understand that the untouched output from AI is not good enough to be professionally responsible for.


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threethirtytwotoday at 1:39 PM

No. You can't get very far copying and pasting from stack overflow.

I'm talking about legit programmers which are around 90% imho. Out of those programmers 65-70% no longer write code.