I had fun playing around in Claude getting it to write 6502 assembler for the BBC Micro. It is fun to imagine what we could have built on those old machines with these new coding agents! But it is kind of hollow isn't it.
It is fun to imagine what we could have built on those old machines with these new coding agents! But it is kind of hollow isn't it.
It's the difference between building a table yourself and telling someone else to build a table for you.
If you've never done anything for yourself, usually with your own hands, you don't understand the pleasure and satisfaction that comes from doing it.
And since "AI" isn't human, it can't know that feeling, either.
You can say the same for building computers. You didn't actually "built" a computer from the ground up. You just bought the pre-made hardware and plugged it in the places that are made to be easily pluggable.
Everything in tech is about standing in the shoulders of what came before.
At least when plugging a computer together I know who built the components. When building with LLMs I have no idea who actually wrote the code snippets that are thrown into the mixer ;)
pmg101 · · focus · HN ↗
reaperducer · · focus · HN ↗
It's the difference between building a table yourself and telling someone else to build a table for you.
If you've never done anything for yourself, usually with your own hands, you don't understand the pleasure and satisfaction that comes from doing it.
And since "AI" isn't human, it can't know that feeling, either.
leidenfrost · · focus · HN ↗
Everything in tech is about standing in the shoulders of what came before.
flohofwoe · · focus · HN ↗