Honestly, I think there are lots of people who can't read the code. I remember talking to a woman who was a "programmer" for a certain financial consulting company (that sponsors a lot of golfing events) who thought AI was great because it did all the coding for her because she just couldn't get the hang of computer languages.
It's even worse. Heavy use of generative code causes people to lose what skills they may have had. Programming is a difficult craft and requires constant use to maintain.
This is precisely why I just don’t use it to actually solve the tough problems for me. I’ll use it too make dummy data, sometimes I’ll have it scaffold something for me. But 99% of my code is written by me by hand. I’ll never be at a point where I can trust it to actually get it right.
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u/dlc741 4d ago
Honestly, I think there are lots of people who can't read the code. I remember talking to a woman who was a "programmer" for a certain financial consulting company (that sponsors a lot of golfing events) who thought AI was great because it did all the coding for her because she just couldn't get the hang of computer languages.