Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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Armin was once one of the most prolific programmers in Python. Says he never writes code anymore. Seeing more and more people like him write stuff like this on what are supposedly computer programming forums. lobste.rs/s/qmjejh/ai_is_slowl

Notably, once a person crosses this threshold, I see them still hang out on programming forums, but they never talk about any of the puzzles of programming anymore. Only about running agents. Which feels strange and sad. Why hang out on the forums at all then?

AI is slowly munching away my passion

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird@sauropods.win
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@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber

I have my fifth graders write a program that will convert decimal numbers to Roman numerals. They know that there are already webpages that do this with smart trim programs that always give the right answer. They know they could ask an LLM and probably get the right answers most of the time.

They still want to solve the puzzle.

"It works! It works!"

I've love hearing that when I'm teaching.

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