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AI hasn't made programming easier — it's just made it differently difficult

An opinion piece in Communications of the ACM argues that AI coding tools have not made software development easier — they have simply shifted where the difficulty lies. Instead of writing code, developers now spend time verifying, understanding and fixing AI-generated output. The authors contend that the new skills required to work effectively with AI are just as demanding as traditional programming.

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