Off topic, but I remember fondly the pre-LLM days when I used to love reading about programming languages. I never got a chance to professionally work with Rust, but made some cool hobby projects with it. Would have eventually tried out zig too.
Now it all feels so pointless though. Like memorizing rules to do mental arithmetic. Sure, there is still use for language expertise, but not enough to get excited over new concepts and ideas.
> Sure, there is still use for language expertise, but not enough to get excited over new concepts and ideas.
Programming and learning new things can still be fun in the era of agentic coding.
With LLMs, I get to quicky ask: what would this look like? Why do it that way? If you suspect that the LLM isn't doing it the right way, you can still investigate that yourself.
e.g. the other day, <a href="https://rhombus-lang.org/" rel="nofollow">https://rhombus-lang.org/ was mentioned on HN. With LLMs, the cost for trying this out is practically much lower.
Yep, learning new things is amazing now. Just today I went through some really crappy slides, just dropped them to gemini and asked for elaboration. It saved me hours of figuring the shit out the old fashioned way.
karmakurtisaani · · focus · HN ↗
Now it all feels so pointless though. Like memorizing rules to do mental arithmetic. Sure, there is still use for language expertise, but not enough to get excited over new concepts and ideas.
rgoulter · · focus · HN ↗
Programming and learning new things can still be fun in the era of agentic coding.
With LLMs, I get to quicky ask: what would this look like? Why do it that way? If you suspect that the LLM isn't doing it the right way, you can still investigate that yourself.
e.g. the other day, <a href="https://rhombus-lang.org/" rel="nofollow">https://rhombus-lang.org/ was mentioned on HN. With LLMs, the cost for trying this out is practically much lower.
karmakurtisaani · · focus · HN ↗