Comment by lelanthran

> He had been working as a programmer for a significantly longer time than me. Long enough that for many years of his career, he had been programming in assembly.

Please, not this pre-canned BS again!

Comparing abstractions to AI is an apples to oranges comparison. Abstractions are dependable due to being deterministic. When I write a function in C to return the factorial of a number, and then reuse it again and again from Java, I don't need a damn set of test cases in Java to verify that factorial of 5 is 120.

With LLMs, you do. They aren't an abstraction, and seeing this worn out, tired and routinely debunked comparison being presented in every bloody thread is wearing a little thin at this point.

We've seen this argument hundreds of times on this very site. Repeating it doesn't make it true.