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   Studio 8502 :verified: (mos_8502@oldbytes.space)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 11:55:42 JST Studio 8502 :verified:

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs To be fair, maintaining crap code you didn't write is like 90% of most professional programmer's day to day work. If anything, the AI's code will be blandly functional and have fewer syntax errors.

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     Studio 8502 :verified: (mos_8502@oldbytes.space)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2023 11:58:44 JST Studio 8502 :verified:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I actually "talked" with ChatGPT the other day, asking it to generate various common data structures in C99. The code it generated was hardly inspired, but I did step through it all, and it all would work. It definitely won't be writing anything cool and original any time soon, but it does a better job than I would have expected.

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     elle mundy (exchgr@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 02:02:56 JST elle mundy

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     • Techronic9876

     @Techronic9876 @thomasfuchs counterpoint: mastering good code design technique and optimizing software to be leaner and faster also saves time and allows for more time to be creative

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     techronic9876@sigmoid.social's status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 02:02:57 JST Techronic9876

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • elle mundy

     @thomasfuchs @exchgr the vast majority of software engineering jobs don’t allow for creativity anymore. It’s more about meeting the metrics from a product manager. Ai code writing makes these jobs a lot easier and less stressful and for engineers who want to be creative, it gives them more time to work on creative things at work or as a side hustle.

     Not to mention that they help speed up your creative experimentation too.