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I think this “coding will be automated” is that “the interview(hard) the job(easy) meme” but backwards.

It seems very obvious that an AI will solve all the hardest coding problems first because they’re all documented really well, but fuck if I can get Claude to figure out a basic css layout. In wrestling with Cursor and tailwind now.

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Interesting how our experiences are so different. IMHO CSS is what the LLM’s are best at, out of all code editor tasks I have thrown at them. It’s trivially true that there is more CSS and JS in their training data than anything else since that’s what every single website in the world contains.

llm are good if you ask for a greenfield. they just copy paste a template from their training which was done by a human and fill in the blanks, like any intern

but if you task it with something that needs existing context for css, you're pretty much screwed.

I don't get how intelligent people here can fall for agi myth. i guess it's human nature, like a statician who keeps buying lottery tickets .

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