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This a classic case of understanding programming as an activity that is primarily about text production. This is what Naur was arguing against in Programming As Theory Building [1].

Taking Nair's viewpoint, coding AI will be useful only to the extent that it assists programmers to build and employ their theory of the program. Or to itself develop a useful theory of a specific program, not just programs in general.

[1] https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f...




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