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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. broodbucket · · focus · HN ↗
      That's great for you, but you're completely devoid of empathy if you can't understand these posts. For many, many people, the things that are left are not the enjoyable ones. People have built hobbies and careers around doing something they love and its relevance is evaporating at an unprecedented rate.
      1. na1026 · · focus · HN ↗

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