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I must confess to getting a little sick of seeing the endless stream of articles about this (along with the season finale of Succession and the debt ceiling), but what do you folks think? Is this something we should all be worrying about, or is it overblown?

EDIT: have a look at this: https://beehaw.org/post/422907

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[–] glad_cat9187@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's a bit overblown right now like outsourcing 10 years ago, but it may change in the future and put people out of a job.

I am scared about junior programmers though. It feels like they will try to "learn" by reading answers from ChatGPT without actually learning, searching, thinking, and failing. Failing is good when you begin because you learn what works and what doesn't. If everyone do this, we will have a whole generation of programmers who can't produce good code or change it.

I already saw this trend on /r/learn_programming where half the posts were beginners asking simple questions that could be answered by "read a book," "read the official tutorial," or "use Google."

Edit: I can add that this bad trend also happened in /r/programming and /r/coding where all the posts were either about technology (off-topic) or basic programming advice.