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>>tablet+(OP)
> "For art, music, and writing? I got nothing. I’m inclined to believe the skeptics in those fields."

You've already lost me, because I view programming as an art form. I would no more use AI to generate code than I would use it to paint my canvas.

I think the rest of the article is informative. It made me want to try some things. But it's written from the perspective of a CEO thinking all his developers are just salt miners; miners go into the cave and code comes out.

I think that's actually what my hangup is. It's the old adage of programmers simply "copying and pasting from stack overflow" but taken to the extreme. It's the reduction of my art into mindless labor.

>>TheCra+U3
I'm sure salt miners needed to make peace with their toil and also focused on tools and techniques to be more productive; how to remove the salt most elegantly in nice clean blocks, minimize waste, reduce burden on their physical bodies.

But to their bosses their output was salt.

I'm sorry but unless you're working in open source for the pure love of the tech/craft, the output of software engineering is PROBLEM SOLVING.

That's why "build vs. buy" exists - sometimes it's better to buy a solution than buy one. That's why a valid solution to a problem sometimes is to convince a customer that their ask is wrong or unreasonable, and something simpler or easier would get them 99% of what they need with 1% of the effort.

That's our job.

>>deanCo+Wb
Sure, for a large portion of our industry, the goal is to hoover up as much user data as cheaply as possible. Being responsible with that data isn't part of that "PROBLEM SOLVING."