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What I have enjoyed about programming is being able to get the computer to do exactly what I want. The possibilities are bounded by only what I can conceive in my mind. I feel like with AI that can happen faster.

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testaccount28|1 month ago

> get the computer to do exactly what I want.

> with AI that can happen faster.

well, not exactly that.

polishdude20|1 month ago

For simple things it can. But then for more complex things that's where I step it

chrisjj|1 month ago

Have you an example of getting a coding chatbot to do exactly what you want?

simonw|1 month ago

https://gisthost.github.io/?a41ce6304367e2ced59cd237c576b817... - which built https://github.com/datasette/datasette-transactions exactly the way I wanted it to be built

audience_mem|1 month ago

Is this a joke? Are you genuinely implying that no one has ever got an LLM to write code that does exactly what they want?