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Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t
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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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I can use CAD. I am an engineer.
But noone will ask me to draft a building design on AutoCAD, same as noone will ask me to do so with pencil and paper.
Because I don't know buildings.
Sure, I might be asked to copy a pen-paper drawing onto CAD, but a Civil Engineer with CAD will do that better and a photo tracing software might do it as well as me.
So while a good enough LLM might code as well as a coder, Programming is more than just coding and making anything new, requires programming.