A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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Calling it now, AI seems like a threat to programmers because it "automates the work of programmers" but this isn't actually true. The nuance that gets glossed over is that AI automates the task of translating ideas to code. But it's only X% accurate. Without being able to rely on the underlying code programmers, if anything,  become even more important.

Imagine an inexperienced person trying to use AI to build a product and they hit an event bubbling issue, a caching issue, a race condition. All of these issues are governed by things that are invisible to most users and hard for experienced people to fully isolate.

What does AI actually do? It makes programmers go way faster. It's more akin to the prop plane to jet age rather than something like farming to factories.

AI speeds up programming, not replaces it. It helps translate ideas to code faster, but programmers are still critical for solving complex issues