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).
> I don't understand these posts. I've never been more excited to program. Everything that I disliked about it disappeared overnight.
Based on your post, you never liked programming in the first place. You liked having software. Typing the code in, reading the documentation, all that stuff is programming.
I'm becoming more and more certain that there are two kinds of people in the world: those for whom the end result is the main point, and those for whom the journey there is. Generative AI has revealed how stark this divide is.
I'm not saying either type is better than the other, but the recent technological changes certainly have put a lot of wind in the "end resulters'" sails. They must not be allowed to hijack the definition of programmer, hacker, geek.
It also makes me think there's a divide on how many steps people choose or are able to see ahead.
They tell people who liked the journey that they're way is inefficient and you need only prompt to build, not seeing that in two years they're boss will be saying the same thing to them because they don't warrant the salary to pay them to do the same thing anyone with an idea can do.
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).
bigstrat2003 · · focus · HN ↗
Based on your post, you never liked programming in the first place. You liked having software. Typing the code in, reading the documentation, all that stuff is programming.
gspr · · focus · HN ↗
I'm not saying either type is better than the other, but the recent technological changes certainly have put a lot of wind in the "end resulters'" sails. They must not be allowed to hijack the definition of programmer, hacker, geek.
Zizizizz · · focus · HN ↗
They tell people who liked the journey that they're way is inefficient and you need only prompt to build, not seeing that in two years they're boss will be saying the same thing to them because they don't warrant the salary to pay them to do the same thing anyone with an idea can do.