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archagon • today at 5:56 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> The point of programming is not to do the same thing again.

That's called an abstraction, which AI is expressly not. If your work involves writing the same code over and over again, you're doing it wrong.

> I’m happy most programming is going away. I was capable but now I’m even more capable at creating solutions.

This describes management.

> The art will stay.

This describes actual engineering.


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cortesoft • today at 6:02 PM

Why isn’t AI a complex form of abstraction?

It works because it re-uses previous work to solve new problems. That is what abstractions are used for.

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