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Why hobby coders treat AI-written code as missing the point

Programmer Fogus, in a blog post, explains why hobby coding communities are hostile toward large language models, arguing that for hobbyists, working code is not the goal; they value the process of building operating systems, programming languages, and console emulators, or fitting programs into minimal characters. The post, highlighted by Boing Boing, underscores a cultural clash between AI-generated code and the intrinsic rewards of manual coding.

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A programmer named Fogus came across a GitHub argument about chess engine development and wrote about why hobby coding communities are hostile toward large language models. Hobbyists say is working code isn't the goal. They like to build operating systems, programming languages, and console emulators, or try to fit a working program into as few characters as possible. — Read the rest

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