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So cringy. Should we also add badges for doing it without autocomplete, syntax highlighting. Hell, why even bother with text, if you didn't develop it by punching cards then you're not a real developer.

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I think you're being unreasonable. Your examples are closer to spellcheck and punctuation correction. Even they have subtle societal considerations such as Americanising English. A much more appropriate comparison would be Copilot which is being discussed nowadays.

It’s the same thing we heard from musicians who didn’t want to learn technology in the 70’s: using a synth or sequencer means it’s not “real music”.

Those purists are mostly dead. Everyone uses technology in music today. And music is better for it.

There are still purist being born (not me tbf). And I'm glad for that.

Are there really still purists who don’t just reject technology for their own music, but who insist that any music that uses technology is somehow not real art? I haven’t met anybody like that in 30 years.

> in the 70’s

> Those purists are mostly dead

Genius argument there buddy

I don’t understand the point of your insulting response. Younger generations grew up with technology. Just being part of music. Music goes on just fine, nobody makes that stupid argument anymore.

People born in the 70s are 53 at most. They are almost certainly not "mostly dead" yet.

Nobody said anything about people born in the 70's. They said "musicians who didn’t want to learn technology in the 70's", which is clearly different.

Those musicians were probably 30+ in the 70's, making them 83+ now. Life expectancy of someone who reaches 30 is 48 years, so yes: most of them are dead now.

And almost most of us are not.

Synthesisers and sequencers don't write music for you, that's not a meaningful comparison.

I unironically agree

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