alt Hacker NewsI can only imagine that people who say things like:
> If you use AI for anything else, and in particularly if you use it to generate code, you're wasting your time.
Have not used frontier models in at least a year.
It is nearly inconceivable to me that I would ever go back to writing code by hand, in any context. Even if no new model was ever released, the combination of GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4 flash is more than sufficient to do real work. It's not hard to imagine that a distillation of Mythos/5.6S or whatever is a couple generations away will push me even further in this direction.
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How are you verifying all the code that's generated? Do you think that verifying properly would take you as much effort as the original implementation would've?
1000% this person has no idea what they are talking about.
Are you writing code for end-user applications, or for tools or libraries that other stuff is built with?
nailed it
Do you not enjoy coding? I'm not trying to be snarky, just a genuine question. People used to enjoy it but lately all I see are people talking about they "no longer have to do it"
I see both sides of the argument people endless have over this. I have been hesitant to take a solid position, first because I suck at coding and second because I dont really have a dog in this fight.
The only context I have is my friend in HVAC from many years ago that went to a school that taught everything manually because they wanted people to have a deep understanding of it. What happens to code in the future when people don't have a deep understanding?