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[โ€“] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean maybe. But one is a deterministic way to do the exact same thing, the other is a nondeterministic way to maybe do a similar thing.

[โ€“] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's right.

But are enough of the AI generation people going to understand the difference?
I feel like, due to the reduction of quality expectations, they will just end up feeling the same about this as we do about the previous one, despite the difference being visible as night and day for us.