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A comic by Dr. Lex (a.k.a. Alexander Thomas)
in the style of geeky classics like User Friendly

Latest strip: 162 – Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Current story arc: The Future Is Now

Strip 162
Setting: The kitchen/lunch area.
Adil: I am now writing Python code with A.I. assistance, it goes 55% faster!
Steve: Well, that kind of speed-up is actually inversely proportional to programming experience. For senior programmers, the gain may be less than 10%.

Adil: That must obviously just be because old farts do not dare to embrace these new tools, and stubbornly write everything themselves from the ground up.
Steve: Um, not really. It is mostly because those old farts simply know how many mistakes the A.I. will make, hence either write all the code themselves, or waste a lot of time fixing all the mistakes.

Steve: Consider this: a baby has zero knowledge of writing code, and has infinite gain from anything being auto-generated. An old fart who knows exactly what to write, is better off writing it right away, than to coax exactly that code out of an A.I. assistant.
Adil: Well, then at least I am not a baby anymore…

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