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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago (23 children)

The claims that AI will be surpassing humans in programming are pretty ridiculous. But let's be honest - most programming is rather mundane.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Never have I had to implement any kind of ridiculous algorithm to pass tests with huge amounts of data in the least amount of memory, as the competitive websites show.

It has been mostly about:

  • Finding the correct library for a job and understanding it well, to prevent footguns and blocking future features
  • Design patterns for better build times
  • Making sane UI options and deciding resource alloc/dealloc points that would match user interaction expectations
  • cmake

But then again, I haven't worked in FinTech or Big Data companies, neither have I made an SQL server.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because actually writing code is the least important part of programming.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, not the least important, it is an important part. But way less than a common person thinks.

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