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It's useful to you. I'd say take the win and let the haters quibble. I'm good enough at coding that I can use it as part of my day job, but I hate coding for the sake of coding. For me coding is a tool for solving problems, and now AI can sometimes help me solve problems I might not have had the motivation to persue. My scale is usually "a small application that helps me do X", not "I develop photoshop singlehandedly".

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absolubtely. Worth noting though that a large number of people here literally do develop photoshop, or similar apps of similar complexity.

The fact they aren't doing it singlehanded makes it way harder, not easier. This is a central counterintuitive finding of most thinking about software development

> The fact they aren't doing it singlehanded makes it way harder, not easier.

As N->large, fraction of time spent coordinating approaches infinity.

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