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📁 Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, says AI coding is not replacing programmers; it is turning them into “AI vampires”. Who work more, sleep less, and produce far more. The blind spot is that productivity is now outrunning comprehension. At scale, software becomes something people summon faster than...

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