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For every coder doing some cutting-edge Computer SCIENCE there are 99 people creating one more CRUD API Glue application or microservice. I've been doing this

For every coder doing some cutting-edge Computer SCIENCE there are 99 people creating one more CRUD API Glue application or microservice. I've been doing this for 25 years and everything I do can be boiled down to API Glue. Stuff comes in, code processes stuff, stuff goes out. Either to another system or to a database. I'm not breaking new ground or inventing new algorithms here. The basic stuff has been the same for two decades now. Maybe 5% of the code I write is actually hard, like when the stuff comes in REAL fast and you need to do the processing within a time limit. Or you need to get fancy with PostgreSQL queries to minimise traffic from the app layer to the database. With LLM assistance I can have it do the boring 95% of scaffolding one more FoobarController.cs , write the models and the entity framework definitions while I browse Hacker News or grab a coffee and chat a bit. Then I have more time to focus on the 5% as well as more time to spend improving my skills and helping others. Yes. I read the code the LLM produces. I've been here for a long time, I've read way more code than I've written, I'm pretty good at it.

mexicocitinluez 1y ago
> I've been doing this for 25 years and everything I do can be boiled down to API Glue. Oooof, and you still haven't learned how big this field is? Give me the ego of a software developer who thinks they've seen it all in a field that changes almost daily. Lol. > The basic stuff has been the same for two decades now. hwut? > Maybe 5% of the code I write is actually hard, like when the stuff comes in REAL fast and you need to do the processing within a time limit God, the irony in saying something like this and not having the self-awareness to realize it's actually a dig at yourself. hahahahaha Congratulations on being the most lame software developer on this planet who has only found himself in situations that can be solved by building strictly-CRUD software. Here's to hoping you keep pumping out those Wordpress plugins and ecommerce sites. I have 2 questions for you to ruminate on: 1. How many programming jobs have you had? 2. How many programming jobs exist in the entire world at this moment? It's gotta be what, a million job difference? lol. But you've seen it all right? hahahazha
- theshrike79 1y ago
  I didn't say that there aren't people doing cutting edge stuff. But even John Romero did the boring stuff along with the cool stuff. Andrej Karpathy wrote a ton of boilerplate Python to get his stuff up and running[0]. Or are you claiming that every single line of the nanochat[0] project is peak computer science algorithms no LLM can replicate today? Take the initial commit tasks/ directory for example[1]. Dude is easily in the top 5 AI scientists in the world and he still spends a good time writing pretty basic string wrangling in Python. My basic point here is that LLMs automate generating the boilerplate to a crazy degree, letting us spend more time in the bits that aren't boring and are actually challenging and interesting. [0] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat [1] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/tree/master/tasks https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/tree/master/tasks

mexicocitinluez 1y ago

> I've been doing this for 25 years and everything I do can be boiled down to API Glue. Oooof, and you still haven't learned how big this field is? Give me the ego of a software developer who thinks they've seen it all in a field that changes almost daily. Lol. > The basic stuff has been the same for two decades now. hwut? > Maybe 5% of the code I write is actually hard, like when the stuff comes in REAL fast and you need to do the processing within a time limit God, the irony in saying something like this and not having the self-awareness to realize it's actually a dig at yourself. hahahahaha Congratulations on being the most lame software developer on this planet who has only found himself in situations that can be solved by building strictly-CRUD software. Here's to hoping you keep pumping out those Wordpress plugins and ecommerce sites. I have 2 questions for you to ruminate on: 1. How many programming jobs have you had? 2. How many programming jobs exist in the entire world at this moment? It's gotta be what, a million job difference? lol. But you've seen it all right? hahahazha

theshrike79 1y ago
I didn't say that there aren't people doing cutting edge stuff. But even John Romero did the boring stuff along with the cool stuff. Andrej Karpathy wrote a ton of boilerplate Python to get his stuff up and running[0]. Or are you claiming that every single line of the nanochat[0] project is peak computer science algorithms no LLM can replicate today? Take the initial commit tasks/ directory for example[1]. Dude is easily in the top 5 AI scientists in the world and he still spends a good time writing pretty basic string wrangling in Python. My basic point here is that LLMs automate generating the boilerplate to a crazy degree, letting us spend more time in the bits that aren't boring and are actually challenging and interesting. [0] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat [1] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/tree/master/tasks https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/tree/master/tasks