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seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between "oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god" and "yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"

can't wait for the stories about the latter folks getting laid off first because they're not as Productive™

also conspicuous that artists and writers almost universally revile this junk, but there's a subset of programmers going "thank god, i don't have to write code any more" no one was making you do this?? start a food truck idk

there's far too many programmers who don't like programming. I figure mostly they're just in it for the money?

What I don't get is, basically all programmers used to hate reading and verifying and testing code even more. And now they do basically only that.

just another example of how genAI/LLMs seem mainly focused on taking all the fun/creative tasks away so we have more time to focus on doing tedious work nobody wants to do

Ya I'm atm watching some at Microsoft, who are some of the highest rated developers with their intricate low-level knowledge valued by many essentially nannying a toddler on github. Please copilot listen to me please please do the thing please. Its so sad to watch. github.com/dotnet/runti...

I feel like if that was an unknown human submitting repeatedly failed PRs, they would already have been blocked from the project