I think it’s a bit overblown right now like outsourcing 10 years ago, but it may change in the future and put people out of a job.

I am scared about junior programmers though. It feels like they will try to “learn” by reading answers from ChatGPT without actually learning, searching, thinking, and failing. Failing is good when you begin because you learn what works and what doesn’t. If everyone do this, we will have a whole generation of programmers who can’t produce good code or change it.

I already saw this trend on /r/learn_programming where half the posts were beginners asking simple questions that could be answered by “read a book,” “read the official tutorial,” or “use Google.”

Edit: I can add that this bad trend also happened in /r/programming and /r/coding where all the posts were either about technology (off-topic) or basic programming advice.

It would be good to have a Programming topic somewhere. Something not necessarily tied to one specific language.

Hi, Kuro5hin Slashdot Digg Reddit refugee here. Please keep it that way, it reminds me of the newsgroups or old communities when the web started, and it’s really better than fake rules with vague legal text. Also thanks for the web site.