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The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory, Dan Shapiro

Level Zero is your parents’ Volvo, maybe with an automatic transmission. Whether it’s vi or Visual Studio, not a character hits the disk without your approval. You might use AI as a search engine on steroids or occasionally hit tab to accept a suggestion, but the code is unmistakably yours. This is manual labor in a deflationary world.