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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. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
      >Who likes typing code...

      Mmm..almost everyone who loves programming. If I hated typing code, I would not been a programmer, because it used to involve a lot of typing.

      Or else you did it for $$$. But then don't assume every one who programs hates typing code.

      1. darkstarsys · · focus · HN ↗
        Or maybe you did it because you had ideas for things computers ought to be able to do, and needed to get those ideas into the computer?
        1. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
          For many years? I don't think so...
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