Mastodawn

OH: “AI programming tools have made the best programmer you know slightly more efficient, and the worst programmer you know infinitely more insufferable and dangerous.”

FUCKING CO-SIGNED (albeit more the latter point…extremely few of the best programmers I know are on board with this crap.)

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Whyrl 22h ago

@bitprophet @critter_in_flux The best programmer I know wouldn't touch that shit.

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Critter (he/him)

@whyrl @bitprophet also true. But they could also extract value and fix it if they had to use the slop machine, as many people are being forced to. I think the more important point is the issues caused by enabling a larger number of people to do more damage due to being unable to know how to deal with the issues it causes.