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Comment by phtrivier | Hacker News Reader

I've seen a couple of articles like this, but they never show the previous prompts to give some awareness of the language, tools, etc...

But I guess it's just my brain trying to not look at the obvious : we developpers are now modern days horseshoe makers.

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Hi I wrote the op article. The previous prompts were me copy pasting verbatim 10 line chunks of the spec for my language: https://github.com/randomsoup/sack into the chat box, since the whole spec at once was longer than it would intake as an input.

> we developpers are now modern days horseshoe makers.

Explain?

As explained by GPT:

> The comment seems to be expressing the idea that developers are similar to horseshoe makers in that their work, like the work of horseshoe makers, is becoming increasingly obsolete or irrelevant.

My feeling is that people won't be writing code as it is written now. Those that do will likely be the same as horseshoe makers. Instead, you will have new tools and be solving different problems. As mechanics now have taken the role of those in charge of maintaining our primary transportation tool.

Replicated with ChatGPT: "The statement "we developers are now modern-day horseshoe makers" is a metaphor. It suggests that just as horseshoe makers were once important and in high demand but are now largely obsolete due to technological advancements, developers may eventually become obsolete as well due to advances in technology. In other words, the statement is expressing the idea that the role of developers may become less important or necessary in the future."

Near obsolete.

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