On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 1:57 AM Charles R Harris via NumPy-Discussion <
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> E. S. Raymond is another recent convert.
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> *Programming with AI assistance is very revealing. It turns out I'm not
> quite who I thought I was.There are a lot of programmers out there who have
> a tremendous amount of ego and identity invested in the craft of coding. In
> knowing how to beat useful and correct behavior out of one language and
> system environment, or better yet many. *
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> *If you asked me a week ago, I might have said I was one of those people.
> But a curious thing has occurred. LLMs are so good now that I can validate
> and generate a tremendous amount of code while doing hardly any hand-coding
> at all.*
> *And it's dawning on me that I don't miss it.*
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> Things are moving fast.
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They are. I was a skeptic about code generation until a couple of months
ago. Now I work with colleagues working on complex data science projects
who write nearly no code directly, but still drive/review it manually.

David


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> Chuck
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