The one thing that I can’t wrap my mind around is how the “AI is gonna replace programmers” crowd reconciles:
1. The objective fact that most code is garbage,
2. and the idea that a probabilistic model trained on said code will ever spit out something that is anywhere close to a capable developer. (1/3)
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