• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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    8 months ago

    And it’ll be used to suppress wages, because “you’re not making new stuff, just fixing some problems in existing code.” That you have to rewrite most of it is conveniently not counted.

    That’s at least what was tried with movie writers.

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      8 months ago

      Most programmers agree debugging can be harder than writing code, so basically the easy part is automated, but the more challenging and interesting parts, architecture and the debugging remain for programmers. Still it’s possible they’ll try to sell it to programmers as less work.