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"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/54810980

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Senko Rašić"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmersThe software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...

Replying to @⁨FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works⁩

Whoever you are, don’t outsource your understanding, judgement, empathy and taste to AI. Don’t abdicate your responsibility. Don’t be a meat proxy.

By expanding the ability to program to people without the knowledge of how that code works in the first place, it’s naive to expect that most uses of AI in programming will be informed uses by senior developers able to recognize errors and security flaws.

Such a pro-AI position also ignores the enormous amount of theft that these tools are built on.

Replying to an earlier post

Yeah, it can be both, like, if you want to argue that in our current capitalist society people need to be compensated fairly for their work, I’ll hear that argument, but I don’t think it’s the best or most accurate framing. I think it’s just as obnoxious reddit made a deal with google to train on my (and everyone else’s) comments throughout the website as I do the possibility it was trained on my artwork, and I’m not alone in that.

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