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> and a background in the area is essential

Yes, precisely. Maybe one could (re)make something using LLMs without understanding a thing, but that is as good as copy pasting from SO without understanding.



> but that is as good as copy pasting from SO without understanding.

I'm sure there are a large amount of programmers who do this quite often..


Of course, they now probably switched to LLMs.




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