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Nobody is saying that you don't have to read and check the code. Especially for things like numerical constants. Those are very frequently hallucinated (unless it's something super common like pi).


I’ve now retired from professional programming and I’m now in hobby mode. I learn nothing from reading AI generated code. I might as well read the stack overflow questions myself and learn.


You aren't supposed to learn anything. Nobody is using AI to do stuff they couldn't do themselves. AI just does it much much faster.




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