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LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways

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54 points tudorizer | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.388s | source
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dtagames ◴[25 Jun 25 02:07 UTC] No.44373048[source]▶
I respect Martin Fowler greatly but those who, by their own admission, have not used current AI coding tools really don't have much to add regarding how they affect our work as developers.

I do hope he takes the time to get good with them!

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diggan ◴[28 Jun 25 10:03 UTC] No.44403527[source]▶
> have not used current AI coding tools really don't have much to add regarding how they affect our work as developers

I dunno, sometimes it's helpful to learn about the perspectives of people who've watched something from afar as well, especially if they already have broad knowledge and context that is adjacent to the topic itself, and have lots of people around them deep in the trenches that they've discussed with.

A bit like historians still can provide valuable commentary on wars, even though they (probably) haven't participated in the wars themselves.

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1. TZubiri ◴[28 Jun 25 12:50 UTC] No.44404350[source]▶
I agree, I don't use coding tools, "except to ask for a script to chatgpt every once in a while". But I experience it by reviewing and detecting LLM generated code by consultants and juniors. It's easy to ask them for the prompts for example, but when they use autocompletion based LLMs, it's really hard to distinguish source from target code.