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AI Didn’t Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult – Communications of the ACM

AI does not, therefore, diminish the craft; it widens it, deepens it, and makes more of the work explicitly intellectual. The work becomes differently difficult because it demands more sophisticated forms of expertise: judgment over recall, architecture over syntax, orchestration over implementation. These are not easier skills to develop or demonstrate, they are simply different ones, and perhaps ultimately more demanding.
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