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Do you ever think that maybe your biased? I ask because I get the feeling from a lot of professional programmers that they feel like they are better and smarter than everyone and everything else. No matter how good an LLM or AI in general gets at programming task, people who make a living programming will always have a problem with it. There is going to come a time when you're going to be obsolete. I hate to say it, but it's coming and the hostility twords the tech isn't going to save your job.

I had a child prodigy friend growing up. He had graduated college before most of us were in highschool. Long story short, he turned to a life of crime, stole millions of dollars from high tech companies and ended up killing himself in a plane crash. It's hard out there for the super smart.


I have zero issues with things going sideways on even the most complicated task. I don't understand why people struggle so much, it's easy to get it to do the right thing without having to hand hold you just need to be better at what you're asking for.


These arguments absolutely infuriate me. You're code is not that unique. Lots of people write the same snippet everyday and have no idea that somebody else just wrote the same thing.

It's such a crock that you can somehow claim you're the only person who can write that snippet and now everyone else owes you something. No. No they don't. Get over it.

Writing a book is different. Lifting pages or chapters is different because it's much harder for two people to write the exact same thing. Code is code, it follows a formula and a everyone uses that formula.


Writing an exact copy of a nontrivial function by mistake is so rare that i've never seen it happen in 20 years of programming


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