You know what's the difference between a human programmer and an "#AI coding assistant"?

Sure, human programmers make mistakes. And rookies often make "worse" mistakes than an #LLM can come up with. However, the difference is that humans can actually learn. Teaching them comes with a payoff; not always and not necessarily for your project, but there's a good chance that they'll become better programmers and contribute back to the community.

Sure, human programmers sometimes plagiarize. And of course they need to look at some code while they learn. However, they actually can think on their own and come up with something original. And they can learn that plagiarism is wrong.

And most importantly, usually they don't lie if they don't have to, and there are limits to their smugness. You can build a healthy community with them.

You can't build a community with unethical bullshit-spitting machines.

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