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		Izkata on Dec 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted cod... From the abstract that definitely sounds like he meant "incidental": Something that's a necessary consequence of previous work and / or the necessary but simpler part of the work.

mjburgess on Dec 6, 2024 [–]

It's Aristotelian language. Accidental means a feature which isn't constitutive (of the activity).

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