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@inthehands @adamhill @endocrimes I really agree with this. Many, also programmers, see programming as puzzle solving which is a very wrong frame of mind for the activity. Programming is much better understood as a journey of learning, as Danielle is also saying.

@inthehands @adamhill @endocrimes Equally wrong, even dangerousluý so, is the idea that AI will help by taking away the boring parts of programming. First of all, that is unlikely to be true, humans will be left with the debugging, the getting the code to work, which is *not* the fun part. Secondly, I deeply believe that there is a value, even in the boring. Even the best pianist will spend hours daily, practicing scales.

Christian Lynbech

@inthehands @adamhill @endocrimes And while I do understand that many programmers do not really control their tools and environments, I cannot help but thinking that if your programming language has so much bolierplate that you need an AI to help write that, perhaps you should consider using another language.