Comment by chetanahuja
19 days ago
Oh good lord. Spare us the beatings of the chest and rending of the garments. "crafting code by hand" like some leftover hipsters from 2010s crafting their own fabric using a handloom. It's fucking code. Were there similar gnashing of the teeth and wails of despair when compilers were first introduced?
> Were there similar gnashing of the teeth and wails of despair when compilers were first introduced?
Yes, at least according to ChatGPT:
"Compilers didn’t arrive to universal applause; they arrived into a world where a chunk of programmers absolutely believed the machine could not be trusted to write “real” code—until the productivity wins (and eventually the performance) became undeniable."
Damn that sounds familiar.
compiler is deterministic, coding models are not. compilers have been unit tested and will generate same output for a given input. They are not the same things.
So?
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