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@idriss Seems predictable to me. Programmers on the left or middle of some distribution identifying "good" programmers or engineers will use AI and be comfortable having completed some task. Those on the right of the distribution may or may not use AI but will insist on understanding what has been created.
Now, an interesting question for me unrelated to the post is "what would be a good metric to identify
really good programmers?"
@troi@techhub.social tbh I could see people who are considered good programmers in one place but not in another place (just prompting to get things done with minimum effort & reserving the effort for something else). Probably it comes back to interest & care, how much the person is interested in iterating over their solution & architecture + learning things regardless of seniority level to achieve a higher level goal (simpler design for example rather than stopping when it works). Maybe that could be an indication of a good programmer?