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How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

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  1. poisonborz · · focus · HN ↗
    I don't understand these posts. I've never been more excited to program. Everything that I disliked about it disappeared overnight.

    Who likes typing code, writing boilerplate, reading bad documentation for nights looking for that small thing, asking around in forums, reading dependency source code, writing trivial unit/ui tests.

    And who likes planning, architecting, directing a team, steering and giving advice, reviewing code, designing interfaces and APIs. Coding became more mentally exciting.

    LLMs truly took the worst of this trade, and left all the enjoyable things (which they will be unable to do until AGI = for a long time if ever).

    1. adithyassekhar · · focus · HN ↗
      I’m not sure which group you consider worst but LLMs already does both. I can only vouch for Opus 5.5. It just needs someone to tell it to do it that’s all. And I am the most anti AI person this post is targeted to.
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