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Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

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448 points nimbleplum40 | 2 comments | 03 Apr 25 03:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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chilldsgn ◴[03 Apr 25 06:37 UTC] No.43565605[source]▶
This is the most beautiful thing I've read in a long time.
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1. gitanovic ◴[03 Apr 25 07:34 UTC] No.43566122[source]▶
Me too, I printed it and underlined it, I will try to memorize some of the concepts and the exposition, because this is a cristallization of what I vaguely feel about the abuse of LLM I am currently witnessing
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2. chilldsgn ◴[03 Apr 25 12:12 UTC] No.43568509[source]▶
Absolutely with you on the abuse of LLMs. I'm deeply concerned about loss of competence and I am so burned out from having to deal with other people's messy and overly complex code.

I think people who think about this like us need to start building resilience for the very real possibility that in a couple of years we'll be the ones dealing with these awful LLM-generated code bases, fixing bad logic and bugs.