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Such a perfect quote! Thank you! Will add it to my collection
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Djikstra wasn’t a god. He’s going to be wrong on this one.
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He's not wrong. People are just drinking the AI kool-aid too hard to realize that the emperor has no clothes.
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How come it works with humans? Give seasoned engineers a spec and they'll create a working product. Many software companies are created and guided on the verbal directions of people who don't code.
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Dijkstra also mockingly described software engineering as "the doomed discipline" because its goal was to determine "how to program if you cannot".

"How to program if you cannot" has been solved now.

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