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Shermann

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2. AI can't be used to create anything the developer using it couldn't do themselves.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Fri Feb 13, 2026, 08:43 PM

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At least not consistently or reliably. With a lot of oversight and intervening it can speed up certain software development tasks, with certain tradeoffs in quality and maintainability.

I use AI as a software developer every day and that's pretty much it in a nutshell.

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