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Ask HN: Are functional programmers more upset about how good AI is at coding?

A Hacker News discussion asks whether functional programmers are more upset about AI's coding abilities, given their emphasis on code elegance compared to programmers using hybrid languages. The post has 2 points and 4 comments.

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One might expect this since functional programmers pride themselves on the elegance of their code while programmers using hybrid languages just want to get the code working — elegance of the implementation is not that important to them.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234658](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234658)

Points: 2
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