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Glyph: programming is an art too, and shouldn't be exempt from resisting AI

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On October 9, Hacker News featured a Glyph essay arguing that programming is also an art. Letting AI take over the understanding and creative decisions in everyday coding, he writes, hurts both a programmer's craft and the user experience. He draws on designing Deferred to show how hands-on work with repetitive callbacks shaped his aesthetic sense for async task execution. The piece separates abstractions that aid understanding from AI uses that remove it, and says even mundane projects give programmers practice and room to develop original ability.

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Oct 9
  1. Hacker News front page
    Programming Isn't Special

    Glyph 主张编程也是艺术,用 AI 替代日常编程中的理解与创作决策,会损害程序员的技艺成长及用户体验。他以自己设计 Deferred 的经历说明,处理重复回调的实际经验促成了对异步任务执行的审美设计。文章区分了帮助理解的抽象与自动化,以及消除理解的 AI 使用方式,强调平凡项目提供了积累实践、发展原创能力的机会。

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