Tim Bray on Nostr: npub1f6a33…xpnql quotes Sinofsky: “But if you think functional AI helping to code ...
npub1f6a33pfyp67y8llhunlhrf855xm47n3fdqymvxfj7yx78c6vqf4scxpnql (npub1f6a…pnql) quotes Sinofsky: “But if you think functional AI helping to code will make humans dumber or isn’t real programming just consider that’s been the argument against every generation of programming tools going back to Fortran.”
But, this is just not true. The number of voices I've heard heard saying this about C++: 0, SQL: 0, Java: 0, Python: 0, JavaScript: 0, Go: 0, Erlang: 0, Ruby: 0, Go: 0, Rust: 0, IDEs: tiny, VCS's: 0, build tools: 0.
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/21/steven-sinofsky/
But, this is just not true. The number of voices I've heard heard saying this about C++: 0, SQL: 0, Java: 0, Python: 0, JavaScript: 0, Go: 0, Erlang: 0, Ruby: 0, Go: 0, Rust: 0, IDEs: tiny, VCS's: 0, build tools: 0.
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/21/steven-sinofsky/