Oct 18, 2026, 7:25 PMIf you dislike AI please stop saying that AI can code now. AI can't fucking code. Just because it can generate code that works for some very loose definition of the word works doesn't mean it can code because coding is so much more than that. Please, I'm begging you, you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them
Oct 18, 2026, 9:22 PM@eniko well it generates code. I wrote deterministic code generators for EMF-based models. LLMs generate code in a more - hm - probabilistic way.
Anyway, coding itself requires the understanding of a subject and then formulating code that reflects it. And most LLM users also need to get the understanding part. That's the hard part.
@eniko Yep, 100% agree with this.
Oct 18, 2026, 10:31 PMI can write a tight, neatly-coded set of instructions for a specific task which is very specific in what inputs it accepts and in what outputs it returns.
I can write these instructions such that they are not single-purpose, and can then be used for more than one fixed set of inputs and one set of outputs. This is what is called 'object-oriented programming'. The set of instructions can then be used for multiple purposes within the code and called repeatedly in different contexts.
I can further optimize any sets of code such that the end result of my work is not merely 'input x -> output y', but that it operates efficiently and well.
To call the output of AI equivalent to what I do in these instances is not merely insulting, it is murderous.
@eniko
I am reminded of what HTML started to look like when people switched from writing it to using layout applications.
And I think that has to be so much worse for functional programs. At least a bad HTML page is really just bad for that one site.