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Zig is hard but worth it

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1. TaupeRanger ◴[] No.36151179[source]
Maybe a few years ago it would've been "worth it". But with LLMs coming to swallow up all coding tasks and turning programmers into prompt engineers within a few years time, I can't see it being "worth it" any more.
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2. Taywee ◴[] No.36151207[source]
You still need to understand the code you are generating, testing, and debugging. LLMs don't replace a need for more expressive programming languages.
3. mr_00ff00 ◴[] No.36152363[source]
I don’t want to make assumptions, but have you tried systems programming with LLMs?

A few years and everyone will be prompt engineers is laughable. I hope I can actually use it productively for more than unit tests in a few years.