Does it technically even matter anymore whether a programmer is proficient in a language?
Must we be proficient in a tool like Cursor in order to continue our careers?
If the editor is planning and writing your code, do you really have the right to call yourself a programmer?
Or are you more like an AI auto-programming operator instead of a programmer?
Are you really doing engineering if you click a button to auto-shape the behavior of some inert resource?
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npub126…lxwyp
2026-06-19 16:06:15 UTC
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