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Your perspective on your last point is interesting. I actually feel the opposite, its become a motivator for me. I used to love coding, and did it a ton. Then
by resolutefunctor 1y ago
Your perspective on your last point is interesting. I actually feel the opposite, its become a motivator for me.
I used to love coding, and did it a ton. Then it became less and less part of my job, and I started hating coding. It was so frustrating when I knew exactly what needed to be done in the code, but had to spend the time doing low value stuff like typing syntax, tracing through the code to find the right file to edit, etc when I'm already strapped for time.
LLMs and agentic coding tools have allowed me to not spend time on the low-value tasks of typing, but instead on the high-value tasks of solving problems like you mentioned. Just interesting the different perspectives we have.
- rybosworld 1y agoThat's a fair point and I actually agree with you. A large part of writing code is doing something menial as you said. I think both of the viewpoints are valid depending on where you're at in your career. We can imagine a junior developer who isn't quite bored with those low-value tasks just yet. As you grow more senior/experienced, the novel problems become harder to find - and those are the one's you want to work on. AI can certainly help you cut through the chaff so you have more time to focus on those. But trends are trends and AI is increasingly getting better at solving the novel/interesting problems that I think you're referring to. Everyone's different and I know there are folks who are excited to not have to write a single line of code. I'd wager that's not actually most engineers/developers though. People still garden by hand because it's innately satisfying.
- resolutefunctor 1y agoSuper well said! Love the garden analogy!