<p>Anyone else remember an early edition of &quot;The Programmer&#39;s Stone&quot; which characterised programmers as either &quot;mappers&quot; (took the time to understand the design of the code they wrote) or &quot;packers&quot; (went straight to coding)?</p><p>Seems like Packers are the target audience for AI coding assistants.</p><p>Along the same lines:</p><p><a href="https://www.doliver.org/articles/programming-is-a-thinkers-game" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">doliver.org/articles/programmi</span><span class="invisible">ng-is-a-thinkers-game</span></a></p><p>and<br /> <a href="https://manuelmoreale.com/a-thought-on-ai-and-creativity" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">manuelmoreale.com/a-thought-on</span><span class="invisible">-ai-and-creativity</span></a></p>
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