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		eikenberry 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The State of AI Coding Report 2025 They are obviously talking about writing code against expectations greater than these simple tools. Why troll with the hyperbole?

simonw 4 months ago [–]

I don't actually think the CLI tools and JavaScript apps I work on are particularly "simple". I think they're the level of complexity that most developers spend effectively all of their time building.

Kernel / database / systems engineers are a pretty rare breed.

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