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by firefax·1mo ago·view on hn ↗
I haven't been this confused by a headline since Keir Starmer declared himself a "gooner".

I think a big issue with a lot of AI enabled coding is that tokens are currently heavily subsidized, and that refusing to learn how to write psudocode and pound out bugs in shell scripts is a fundamental step a lot of programmers are skipping... a stance that I find ironic considering that when I was being told as a preteen to "read the fucking manual" by the 90s internet, I was led to believe if I'm not churning out zero days in C by senior year of high school I might as well abandon all hope of ever understanding anything about computers.

(Flash forward, and the immortal words of the rapper Jay-Z: "I ain't passed the bar, but know a little bit... enough you won't be illegally searching my shit.")