Comment by RedNifre
11 hours ago
Right, just how back in the day, people who loved writing assembly hated high level languages and people who found assembly too tedious loved compilers.
11 hours ago
Right, just how back in the day, people who loved writing assembly hated high level languages and people who found assembly too tedious loved compilers.
First of all, Lisp, Fortran and COBOL had been around most of the time when assembly was popular. Assembly was used because of resource constraints.
Secondly, you are not writing anything you get from an LLM. You prompt it and it spits out other people's code, stripped of attribution.
This is what children do: Ask someone to fix something for you without understanding the result.
Good artists copy, great artists steal
Picasso (if he really said that) had a machine painting for him?
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I very much understand the result of code that it writes. But I have never gotten paid to code. I get paid to use my knowledge of computers and the industry to save the company money or to make the company money.
Do you feel the same way when you delegate assignments to more junior developers and they come back with code?
It’s almost like there’s a big range of different comprehension styles among human beings, and a varying set of preferences that go with those.