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Also just.. boring code. Like I'm probably more anti-AI than most, but even I'll acknowledge it's nice to just be like... "hey this array of objects I have, I n

Also just.. boring code. Like I'm probably more anti-AI than most, but even I'll acknowledge it's nice to just be like... "hey this array of objects I have, I need sorted by this property" and just have it work. Or how to load strings from exotic character encodings. Or dozens of other bitchy little issues that drag software dev speed down, don't help me "grow" as a developer, and/or are not interesting to solve, full stop. I love this job but I can absolutely get people saying that AI helps them not "fight" the computer.

vlod 10mo ago
I've always believed that the dozens of 'bitchy little issues' are the means to grow as a developer. Once you've done it, you'll hopefully never have to do it again (or at worse be derivatives). Over time you'll have a collection of 'how to do stuff'. I think this is the path to growth. Letting a LLM do it for you is equivalent to it solving a hard leetcode problem. You're not really taxing your brain.
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- djeastm 10mo ago
  >Letting a LLM do it for you is equivalent to it solving a hard leetcode problem. You're not really taxing your brain. But things like "hey this array of objects I have, I need sorted by this property" are not hard leetcode problems They're precisely the kind of tedious, but not taxing, problems that we prefer to farm out to someone else. Like asking a junior to do it.
  - vlod 10mo ago
    My point is that it's tempting and irresistible (based on other comments in this thread) to move from basic attribute sorting, to basic CRUD, SQL queries, CSS/Tailwind, typescript error resolution then using it for Dijkstra, because why not?, it's so nice. Then we're just puppetmasters pulling the strings (which some think this is the way the industry is going).