Programmer Peter Naur's Theory: LLMs Can't Replace Human Coders; Understanding Programs Requires Hands-on Experience, Not Just Data Ingestion

Go read Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and then come back and tell me that LLMs can replace human programmers

To understand Naur’s paper, you need to understand what he means by "theory", which comes from philosopher Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind (wikipedia.org). The Wikipedia page I linked above is not a great place to learn this term and Naur’s use. Instead here’s an analogy by Ryle in the form of a rather long paragraph from The Concept of the Mind (Chapter IX The Intellect), starting on page 263: "If a farmer has made a path, he is able to saunter easily up and down it. That is what the path w...