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Right, just how back in the day, people who loved writing assembly hated high level languages and people who found assembly too tedious loved compilers.
by RedNifre 1y ago
Right, just how back in the day, people who loved writing assembly hated high level languages and people who found assembly too tedious loved compilers.
- bgwalter 1y agoFirst of all, Lisp, Fortran and COBOL had been around most of the time when assembly was popular. Assembly was used because of resource constraints. Secondly, you are not writing anything you get from an LLM. You prompt it and it spits out other people's code, stripped of attribution. This is what children do: Ask someone to fix something for you without understanding the result.
- scarface_74 1y agoI very much understand the result of code that it writes. But I have never gotten paid to code. I get paid to use my knowledge of computers and the industry to save the company money or to make the company money. Do you feel the same way when you delegate assignments to more junior developers and they come back with code?
- lucaspauker 1y agoGood artists copy, great artists steal
- bgwalter 1y agoPicasso (if he really said that) had a machine painting for him?
- jerjerjer 1y agoPicasso explicitly wanted his designs (for cutlery, plates, household items he designed) to be mass-produced, so your question is not as straightforward as you make it to be.
- bgwalter 1y agoWhat is the connection to machine generated code? He designed the items manually and mass produced them. No one objects to a human writing code and selling copies. Apart from that, this is the commercial Picasso who loved money. His early pre-expressionist paintings are godlike in execution, even if someone else has painted a Pierrot before him.
- alpaca128 1y agoPicasso also never said this, and this quote is about ideas, not automation.
- RedNifre 1y agoRight, just how the assembler spits out machine code that other people figured out for you, so you don't even understand the result.
- cushychicken 1y agoIt’s almost like there’s a big range of different comprehension styles among human beings, and a varying set of preferences that go with those.