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Or...we could hire folks that actually know how to write code, without screwing the pooch.

This is especially true, with languages like C++. Someone (I have heard it attributed to Bjarne, but I don't think he said it) said "With C, you can shoot yourself in the foot. With C++, you can blow your whole leg off."

In tech, we have folks that seem to be absolutely convinced that we can have tools, so marvelous, that we can hire total incompetents, and that they will magically write good code. I know of no other engineering discipline, or craft, where people think like this. They usually have rigorous career ladders, with lots of gates.

Maybe Finance sometimes lets knuckleheads behind the wheel, but then, you get things like the Barings Bank disaster.

"What's Barings Bank?" you ask. "It doesn't exist! Is it a hallucination?"

No, it is not. Unfortunately, they let a rather junior trader, named Nick Leeson, behind the wheel...

It's possible that LLMs may finally give us something like what people want, but I suspect that we'll be seeing folks stumping around on one leg...

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