LLMs are transitioning programming from a profession to a hobby. We've seen this happen with several professions that have been largely automated. People still enjoy blacksmithing. Luthiers still enjoy hand-crafting guitars. Both are economically impractical, but people enjoy doing it. Some are even able to monetize their hobby, like lots of people on YouTube do.
I don’t know if this is 100% true because there’s value in writing code for education and idea exploration.
I find it saves tokens and reduces slop piled on slop to have a foundational technical grasp of the technology behind your projects. And that means writing code for exploration and scaffolding.
Agents are such rich BS machines that I also don’t trust them. So I frequently debug and dive into my code rather than letting an agent layer brittle fix on top of brittle fix
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I find it saves tokens and reduces slop piled on slop to have a foundational technical grasp of the technology behind your projects. And that means writing code for exploration and scaffolding.
Agents are such rich BS machines that I also don’t trust them. So I frequently debug and dive into my code rather than letting an agent layer brittle fix on top of brittle fix