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wiseowise 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Grief and the AI split

> and a major goal of every single good programmer I've known has been to make themselves obsolete.

I’ve always heard this mantra when coders were thinking they’re untouchable, not so much now.

Doxin 6 months ago [–]

I don't think any programmer wants to be obsolete, but the only alternative to aiming for it is to write bad code.

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