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

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The debates we're having about AI coding in 2026 (vibe coding, can you trust generated code, is learning to code dead) were answered decades ago. Here are 10 quotes from Dijkstra, Knuth, Kernighan and others that read like they were written about LLMs.
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