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graydon@canada.masto.host ("Graydon") wrote:
@johnzajac Debugging absolutely requires the short term memory COVID infection shreds. Current ability to debug is not great.
Most people currently employed as programmers are able to remember being able to do this stuff, and vaguely how you do this stuff, but they can't actually do it anymore and are desperate to keep people from finding out that they can't do their jobs.
It makes LLMs very popular; it doesn't get the job done but it does let you look busy.