kinda disappointing comments in this thread. Thanks to LLMs I have built more home cooked software than ever. I’m not an engineer, but I've written more code t

kinda disappointing comments in this thread. Thanks to LLMs I have built more home cooked software than ever. I’m not an engineer, but I've written more code this year than ever. LLMs have helped me tackle a huge backlog of projects at home that I wouldn't have been able to justify starting before. And I know 3-5 others doing similarly (we have a group chat). Off the top of my head, this year I’ve made: - webscrapers - notification agents - websites - data manipulation and charting - IaC devops for my entire homelab - an RPG (well, a roguelike) - applets for OBS - chrome extensions to glue together a bunch of stuff I do to study Japanese I’ve written projects in languages I’ve never used like rust and elixir, and learned a ton. Am I gonna switch ladders to be a SWE? Nope, but for better or worse have stopped asking my SWE friends for help. And lately, between RAG and large context models, it’s much easier to improve existing projects. Typing, refactoring, linting, documentation generation, and GitHub ops are now practically effortless.