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1. poisonborz · 1790418474 · 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. daemin · 1790461169 · focus · HN ↗

      If all you do is write requests and then have the LLMs spit out the code then you're not a programmer, you're a middle manager. So maybe you never actually wanted to be a programmer but instead you liked having things built?

      1. empthought · 1790462687 · focus · HN ↗

         I think you’ve forgotten about the “software architect” role.

         If all you do is write requests and then have the LLMs spit out the code, then you’re not a programmer, you’re a software architect.

         Middle managers have to supervise people, otherwise they are not managers.

         1. QuercusMax · 1790630014 · focus · HN ↗

            Middle managers supervise managers. They're managers of managers. Too many people think "middle manager" means "line manager".

            1. daemin · 1790941333 · focus · HN ↗

               You're right. I was thinking of middle managers as the layer of management in between the executives and the workers.

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