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Nick Szabo·2026-02-19 07:40
RT Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet)Is it weird that AI coding assistance is not giving me identity fracture?A lot of software developers are feeling disoriented and threatened these days. Programming by hand is clearly going the way of the buggy whip and the hand-cranked auger. Which is how we're finding out that a lot of people have their identities bound up in being good at hand-coding and how it feels to do that.That's not me. It's not me at all. Rather to my surprise, I don't miss coding by hand, not any mor ...