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Dijkstra, Knuth, Kernighan: 10 Quotes That Predicted the AI Coding Debate

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In 1972, Edsger Dijkstra stood up to accept a Turing Award and gave a lecture called "The Humble Programmer." He had never seen an LLM. He had never watched an agent rewrite a file in his terminal. And yet what he said that day reads like a direct response to the way we argue about AI coding in 202…

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    Dijkstra, Knuth, Kernighan: 10 Quotes That Predicted the AI Coding Debate

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