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		LtWorf 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't cod... Humans don't need to read all of the existing code to produce new code. In fact humans invented code into existance.

brookst 34 days ago [–]

Clever shift of “humans” meaning individuals in the first sentence, and the category in the second.

Today’s humans who write code positively learned from reading other peoples’ code.

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