Ask HN: Are functional programmers more upset about how good AI is at coding?

6 points by amichail 8 hours ago | 11 comments

One might expect this since functional programmers pride themselves on the elegance of their code while programmers using hybrid languages just want to get the code working — elegance of the implementation is not that important to them.

Shashiwatchdog 8 hours ago |

I don't think functional programmers are necessarily more upset about AI being good at coding. If anything, FP tends to emphasize concepts that AI is already quite good at manipulating: composability, immutability, pure functions, and well-defined abstractions.

amichail 7 hours ago | |

If AI is already good at this, then it will naturally lead programmers who may not be good in that respect in that direction anyway via the code that it generates.

In other words, being a human expert in writing high quality implementations is less important now.

markfsharp 8 hours ago |

I think the premise is mostly wrong, and it confuses functional programming with aesthetic programming.

amichail 8 hours ago | |

Don't functional programmers want to make programming more difficult so that writing routine apps becomes more of an intellectual challenge and elegance of the code is a major part of that?

coldtea 8 hours ago | | |

No. I mean, this framing is not even wrong, it's merely absurd.

moomoo11 7 hours ago | | |

no. if we use that framing of yours, fp aim is to write a solution that flows like a river while imperative solution is like rolling up a ball of various solutions and then throwing it at the problem.

dcminter 8 hours ago |

> since functional programmers pride themselves on the elegance of their code while programmers using hybrid languages just want to get the code working

Says who?

beanjuiceII 8 hours ago |

no not at all,AI works extremely well with this mode

amichail 8 hours ago | |

That's not what I asked.