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Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

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  1. QuantumNoodle · · focus · HN ↗
    A hobby is something you enjoy the process of doing, not just the end result. Everybody likes a clean home, but cleaning is rarely a hobby. LLMs expedite achieving the end result. Take from that what you will.
    1. hombre_fatal · · focus · HN ↗
      I think for those of us who got into software initially for the end result -- being the only way for the thing in your head to ever exist -- enjoying the engineering part was a nice, incidental surprise.

      So while LLMs solve the technical implementation side, there's still upside since now we get to materialize the dang thing we were setting out to build in the first place.

      Though there's a huge sense of loss since so much of our skills and identity and time and value were devoted to the engineering side.

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