Wouldn't people who thought programming was fun be even more upset that they can't do it (a certain way they used to) as a job anymore? That they were never working a day in their life before and now have to work every day?

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searls 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes. This is much closer to how many people are experiencing it and why the OP's suggestion of letting people practice it as an unpaid hobby doesn't address their issue.

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zelphirkalt 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If they haven't worked a day in their life before, then who has built all the software products we use today and from which LLMs are endlessly benefitting?

	▲	rubikscube09 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		when i say haven't worked a day in their life, I mean it in terms of the aphorism "if you love what you'll do you'll never work a day in your life".

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Verdex 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Speaking for myself. Not really. The problem that I had with enjoying programming was that many of my coworkers who didn't enjoy programming have some opinions that were frustrating to need to entertain.

Now all I have to do is make sure they're not peddling an actively bad idea and if not I can just tell the bot to incorporate their dubious ideas.

In the past it was all, I'm not familiar with this construct that solves our problem perfectly, why don't we cludge adapter pattern in here again.