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Comment by avian | original | No AI Fridays
[−]avian · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:54 UTC · link
It is provably impossible to write code manually.

It takes an agent on the order of 100 billion operations to produce a single token. A person (generously) taking just a second for a single mental addition or multiplication would take tens of thousands of years to write just a single line of code.