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GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom

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358 points andrewstetsenko | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 20:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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agentultra ◴[23 Jun 25 22:06 UTC] No.44360677[source]▶
… because programming languages are the right level of precision for specifying a program you want. Natural language isn’t it. Of course you need to review and edit what it generates. Of course it’s often easier to make the change yourself instead of describing how to make the change.

I wonder if the independent studies that show Copilot increasing the rate of errors in software have anything to do with this less bold attitude. Most people selling AI are predicting the obsolescence of human authors.

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1. JamesBarney ◴[23 Jun 25 23:18 UTC] No.44361209[source]▶
Right level for exactly specifying program behavior in a global domain without context.

But once you add repo context, domain knowledge etc... programming languages are far too verbose.