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I think we should label devs overreliant on AI as "Engineers who dismiss themselves"

Personally I prefer "Artificially Intelligent engineers" or "Engineers who outsource intelligence".

I'll take that, but don't see how it's so different from the intent I've always had of "automating myself out of the job". When I want to do "engineering", I can always spin up Factorio or Turing Complete. But for the rest of the time, I care about the result rather than the process. For example, before starting to implement a tool, I'll always first search online for whether there is already a good tool that would address my need, and if so, I'll generally utilize that.

The nondeterminism is what makes LLMs different.

You download a tool written by a human, you can reasonably expect that it does what the author claims it does. And more, you can reasonably expect that if it fails it will fail in the same way in the same conditions.

Cracktorio! ;) I also love Dyson Sphere Program.

I wrote some Turing Machine programs back in my Philosophy of Computer Science class during the 80's, but since then my Turing Machine programming skills have atrophied, and I let LLMs write them for me now.

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