[HN Gopher] AI Coding and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Problem
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       AI Coding and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Problem
        
       Author : tylerg
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-04-11 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | grahac wrote:
       | Anyone here see the CS50 peanut butter and jelly problem in
       | person?
        
         | csours wrote:
         | Not in that course, but I've done it at a "STEM" day; it's just
         | about the most fun I've ever had teaching.
        
         | rileymat2 wrote:
         | I had a middle school art teacher do it in roughly 1995.
        
       | tedunangst wrote:
       | Why is the peanut butter so sloppy?
        
       | zahlman wrote:
       | Okay, but like.
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       | If you _do_ have that skill to communicate clearly and describe
       | the requirements of a novel problem, why is the AI still useful?
       | Actually writing the code should be relatively trivial from
       | there. If it isn 't, that points to a problem with your
       | tools/architecture/etc. Programmers IMX are, on average, far too
       | tolerant of boilerplate.
        
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