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I still enjoy coding. AI mostly doesn’t produce adequate quality or correctness for the type of code I enjoy writing. There are several domains where AI is worse than useless because training data doesn’t exist. Obviously my experience doesn’t generalize but writing software is a vast, unbounded domain.

If you find coding boring, explore the frontiers. You will find a lot of coding wilderness where no AI has trod.

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"If you find coding boring, explore the frontiers. You will find a lot of coding wilderness where no AI has trod."

this, AI is nothing without data set

so if you working in bleeding edge technology where your tools is only have 3 contributor and a way to access them via IRC channel once a day, things get interesting

> AI mostly doesn’t produce adequate quality or correctness for the type of code I enjoy writing.

This assumes that companies care about "code quality" and customers care about bugs.

> If you find coding boring, explore the frontiers. You will find a lot of coding wilderness where no AI has trod.

There are a lot of software engineers and not a lot of frontier.

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