Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
cool but that’s not what he said
I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.
Thank you for getting us to this point.
mrroman@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t know what is Altman’s experience, but almost nobody writes software character by character for many years. Context code completion is present for about 30 years already (take a look at Delphi or VS Code from 90ties). Refactoring tooling is about 20 years old too (see Eclipse or other Java IDEs). So if he says character by character, it is just silly. When you write prompt you also write is char-by-char right? :).
deliciEsteva@piefed.world 8 hours ago
And then there is the highly popular “copy and paste” design pattern