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).
This !! I like the thinking and behind programming . My most fun has been solving programming puzzles on sites like leetcode and codeforces. Most day to day programming is about solving business problems which are mundane need directing teams , designing interfaces , api's etc.Sure it helps to have some experience when designing API's and interfaces but thats something that can truly be learnt in a year . Architecting is definitely fun but to build a real system that can stand the test of time takes years and years of understanding the problem you are trying to solve .Any decision you take will take some time before you see the impact and then you take those lessons with you for future architectures . Something that LLMs can never take away.
poisonborz · · focus · HN ↗
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).
manoji · · focus · HN ↗