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Don't worry. No one will want human code in just a few years. This bizarre fixation that humans are decent at coding is a myth. Retype what the machine tells you? I would rather garden or move rocks around.

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I used to like listening to music and reading books. Now my AI agent does it for me and it's so much faster at it than I used to be.

“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. Unfortunately”

― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

> This bizarre fixation that humans are decent at coding is a myth.

I wonder where the LLMs got their training data from.

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