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Can AI Replace Programmers?-Frances Buontempo – Center Keynote Meeting C++ 2019 (youtube.com)
15 points by AlexeyBrin on Dec 8, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



"Don't use C++! Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer.


No. Saved you a click.


"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


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Just saying "No" doesn't add information, so doesn't count as a substantive answer. "Saved you a click" is even worse: that's not just informationless, it's an internet trope that signals the comment has nothing else to say. Those two things add up to a very shallow dismissal—exactly what we don't want here.


Also see "Betteridge's law of headlines" :)




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