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"A program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct that lives in the minds of people who work on it. Lose the people, and you lose the program. Code is merely a written representation of a program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct a program from its code" -Peter Naur

Tim Fischbach

@tfischbach.bsky.social

6 Jan 2025

And that way lies my biggest concern with the current state of LLM based coding assistants: The extreme focus on automating the generation of the written representation.

Gregory Brown [MOVED, SEE BIO]

@skillstopractice.com

And replacing people with not people. My heart literally hurts when people compare using LLMs to collaborating with "Junior Devs" because it's a sign that they've been doing a really poor job of helping early career folks grow and seeing the mutual multiplier effect that comes with it.

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