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Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists?
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Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed?
The conversation isn’t over, but I don’t think I have much to add to it.
A proposed technique for exposing an opaque data structure with idiomatic modern Python.
Does Python still have a need for class without @dataclass?