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1. Punchy+xO[view] [source] 2026-02-02 08:27:01
>>martin+(OP)
I'd argue 2 types of users are

* People using it as a tool, aware of its limitations and treating it basically as intern/boring task executor (whether its some code boilerplate, or pooping out/shortening some corporate email), or as tool to give themselves summary of topic they can then bite into deeper.

* People outsourcing thinking and entire skillset to it - they usually have very little clue in the topic, are interested only in results, and are not interested in knowing more about the topic or honing their skills in the topic

The second group is one that thinks talking to a chatbot will replace senior developer

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2. holodu+XY[view] [source] 2026-02-02 10:19:03
>>Punchy+xO
I think you miss one third user. That's a developer generating entire systems and still have an understanding on the output. The dev person is in control of the architecture, code quality, functional quality and more. These persons are still rare. But I have seen them already. They are the new 10x developers.
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3. ontouc+If1[view] [source] 2026-02-02 12:49:19
>>holodu+XY
I have been diving deeply in the Rust community and ecosystem and really enjoyed reading the decade of real engineering poor into it, from RFCs to std, critical crates such as serde, and testing practices. What a refreshing world.

Compared to the mess created by Node.js npm amateur engineers, it really shows who is 10x or 100x.

Outsourcing critical thinking to pattern matching and statistical prediction will make the haystacks even more unmanageable.

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