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> but I feel like we aren't allowed to be honest anymore that LLMs aren't going to replace programmers or moderate our expectations.

But literally every single programmer I know has this opinion.



Agree, who is not allowing us to be honest? I have found programmers are freely talking about the limitations of AI.


It looks like if the stuff you read online, written by people who need to optimize for various metrics of which objectivity is not among the top ones, shapes the perception of reality


It’s a matter of incentives and who benefits from a generalized belief that AI will wipe the floor with the whole programmer class.


This opinion used to be a lot less popular especially on hackernews


I know developers that love it.

Of course they are terrible at their job, so AI doesn't make their code much worse.




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