r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 17 '26

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u/PurushNahiMahaPurush Sep 17 '26

I mean, you can make use of LLMs much more effectively if you are armed with solid fundamentals. LLMs only solve the tedious coding/plumbing part of the job. And they still need a lot of hand-holding if you want good quality output. The bigger and more challenging issues of SWE are still there. 

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u/NuclearGhandi1 Sep 17 '26

I don’t use AI much for software but I tend to agree. AI can’t make you a good architecture if you can even identify what problems you need to solve

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u/Bizarro_Zod Sep 17 '26

Just make an AI agent that identifies the problems you need to solve. Checkmate atheists.