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		bee_rider 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firing programmers for AI is a mistake The real hardcore experts should be writing libraries anyway, to fully take advantage of their expertise in a tiny niche and to amortize the cost of studying their subproblem across many projects. It has never been easier to get people to call your C library, right? As long as somebody can write the Python interface… Numpy has delivered so many FLOPs for BLAS libraries to work on. Does anyone really care if you call their optimized library from C or Python? It seems like a sophomoric concern.

rootnod3 10 months ago [–]

I think the problem is that with the over-reliance on LLMs, that expertise of writing the foundational libraries that even other languages rely on, is going away. That is exactly the problem.

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