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> Using an LLM for coding is a lot like being a carver.

It’s nothing like being a carver. It’s like being a director; “Once more! With feeling!”. “Perfect, brilliant, just one more take, and I want you to consider…”

A sculptor shapes with their hands, and there is pleasure in that. A director shapes with someone else’s hands.

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It's like being a master, really. You're getting output from something that can't say no and that was built from the works of millions of unknowing and unconsenting contributors.

Yet we see directors as artists. Kubrick, Coppola (both of them), Hitchcock, etc.

We also see actors as artists, and pay them gorillions of dollars. AI is about using distilled human knowledge, while cutting the human out of the loop (and out of the payroll).

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