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This is the answer. Programming was never the bottleneck in delivering software, whether free-range, organic, grass-fed human-generated code or AI-assisted.

AI is just a convenient excuse to lay off many rounds of over-hiring while also keeping the door open for potential investors to throw more money into the incinerator since the company is now “AI-first”.



The point was that "programming" is far more than just "writing code".


Just like writing Lord of the Rings is actually not just about typing. You have to live a life, go to war, think deeply for years, research languages and cultures and then one day you type all that out




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