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Tetondan t1_jc3fsem wrote

What is a programmer? I would say in the most naive understanding of the term it is someone that inputs instructions for computers to perform. Who's to say that a Natural language isn't just another obfuscation on computer programming languages? As is, no programmer is writing raw machine instructions, we are all using languages built on top of each other (usually) multiple layers deep. I don't see current "AI" as being anything more than another abstraction.

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Overall_Warning7518 t1_jcafmxp wrote

The issue with that argument is that the abstraction language is regular old English / human, so at some point nearly everyone will be capable of “programming”. No need for a dedicated programming profession

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Tetondan t1_jcb4i3w wrote

The same could be said for a lawyer or an author or someone else that uses language as a profession. Knowing the language is not enough to know how to use it to get the things you want/need. There is a lot more to "programming" than just writing code.

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