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> Almost every programmer I know personally has a pretty measured opinion on where these things are useful and where they're not. The breathless hype seems mostly from non coders.

We have polar opposite media bubbles. I see OG programmers all over my timeline either grieving the "end of software engineering" (a la Ryan Dahl) or extolling "automatic programming" (a la antirez).

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> We have polar opposite media bubbles. I see OG programmers all over my timeline

The person you’re replying to, in the bit you quoted, said specifically:

> Almost every programmer I know personally

People you know personally are not a “media bubble”. They are, to borrow your expression, polar opposites. It’s people you can speak with candidly and trust versus bits of text without the full context.

I disagree, people you know are much more likely to have the same exact opinions as you on most things. It's the definition of a bubble.

Ultimately though it's those people's bosses who set the direction and from my experience those people are telling you to your face that you'll be replaced by AI as soon as they're able to do so while they continuously fail to see it's shortcomings.

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