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> "producing solutions for actual problems that real people have, is certainly intellectually demanding and also something that allows for several standard devi
by potatolicious 1y ago
> "producing solutions for actual problems that real people have, is certainly intellectually demanding and also something that allows for several standard deviations in skill level"
Absolutely agreed, but I think the idea is that coding tools (or languages, or libraries, or frameworks) frees us to do the actually hard, skill-intensive bits of this, because the thing that's intellectually demanding isn't marshaling and unmarshaling JSON.
- theshrike79 1y agoThis is exactly why we moved from Assembly code to higher level languages and then to using frameworks. Nobody is paying you to make a CRUD web app in Assembly, they're paying you to solve a problem. You're not getting any extra points for using plain vi(m) with no autocomplete to write a Java application. Making stuff the hard way is just stupid performative crap. LLMs are just the next iteration of autocomplete -> intellisense -> language servers. Now instead of autocompleting a method or property, they can autocomplete full unit tests and functions by looking at the patterns across the codebase.