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		candiddevmike 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur c... > to programming like the table saw was to hand-made woodworking This is a ridiculous comparison because the table saw is a precision tool (compared to manual woodworking) when agentic AI is anything but IMO.

marcellus23 13 days ago [–]

The nature of the comparison is in the second paragraph. It's nothing to do with how precise it is.

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