Message-ID: <6ab441ba@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: More Lazy(?) Programmers Are Seduced By AI Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <18d7bd7e3b290a97$107$2277794$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <11911vm$1vull$1@dont-email.me> <11917rh$227v3$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20251224 ("Glenury") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 24 Sep 2026 07:16:43 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 26 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:92045 John Bokma wrote: > On 23/09/2026 20:28, rbowman wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:24:04 +0200, John Bokma wrote: >>> AI is just a tool. A competent programmer is someone who makes the most >>> of their tools. >> >> The 'competent programmer' clause is the rub. I've seen too many posts by >> panicked newbies who have suddenly realized they've been gliding along >> with Claude and can't write a line of code on their own. Or is competency >> now defined as the ability to create prompts? > > That too. A good prompt is often the key to a good solution. But in my > experience one has to be able to at least understand the solution to see > if it's good or bad. I've always found understanding other people's code much more of a chore than writing my own, so that seems like a dead end from the start to me. Now what would help me a lot is an AI that can immediately answer practical debugging questions like "why did that seg. fault happen just then?". -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#