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malfisttoday at 2:37 PM3 repliesview on HN

When you've been perfectly precise in your spec and language, isn't that programming? Why use a stochastic goblin to do things in that case?


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throwaway6977today at 2:43 PM

It's just a lot faster at hammering it out than me pound for pound, and I can quickly rattle off via voice-to-text exactly what I want much faster than I can type all of the code (especially when across a few different files), in a huge majority of tasks I perform. It's also especially good at debugging by brute force quickly and at scale meaning e.g. it can start desperately bisecting diffs to find the source of a bug 10000% faster than I can.

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embedding-shapetoday at 2:48 PM

For me, typing "Create a new namespace with these enums, functions and traits, that should follow X, Y and Z constraints" is faster than typing all that code manually, and typing less is less straining on my hands/fingers.

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