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Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

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jrm4 ◴[28 Aug 25 18:09 UTC] No.45055175[source]▶
I find that all of these discussions are rendered somewhat goofy by our very binary view of "programming" and "not programming."

It's like asking -- "will robots be good for building things?"

Sure, some things. What things?

Personally, I'm hoping for the revival of the idea that Hypercard was intended for; yes, let us enable EVERYONE to build little tools for themselves.

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jonahx ◴[28 Aug 25 18:35 UTC] No.45055451[source]▶
> yes, let us enable EVERYONE to build little tools for themselves.

It will enable more people, but "everyone" is never, ever going to happen.

This is both because (1) many people don't want to do this, no matter how easy it is -- probably the primary reason and (2) many people won't have the ability to do this in a way that is net profitable for them, because their "tool ideas" just won't be good.

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1. jrm4 ◴[28 Aug 25 19:21 UTC] No.45055970[source]▶
Oh sure. But it doesn't need to be everyone; my go-to analogy is how we used to do "cars" vs a lot of them now?

50 years ago, you don't have to be a car guy, but if you know one, that's all you need to save a LOT of money and headache.

Today, that kind of works -- unless you own e.g. a Tesla.