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greymalik ◴[21 Oct 25 17:55 UTC] No.45659146[source]▶

> One could only wonder why they became a programmer in the first place, given their seeming disinterest in coding.

To solve problems. Coding is the means to an end, not the end itself.

> careful configuration of our editor, tinkering with dot files, and dev environments

That may be fun for you, but it doesn’t add value. It’s accidental complexity that I am happy to delegate.

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1. davidw ◴[22 Oct 25 02:45 UTC] No.45664372[source]▶

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I think the author makes a decent point with regards to 'problem solving' and better tools and how LLM's somehow feel different. Fortran is a better tool, but you can still reproducibly trace things back to assembly code through the compiler.

LLM's feel like a non-deterministic compiler that transforms English into code of some sort.

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