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I used to really enjoy writing code, to the point where I would have thought of it as art and fine contemplation. 25 years of corporate development beat that e
by cowanon77 25d ago
I used to really enjoy writing code, to the point where I would have thought of it as art and fine contemplation.
25 years of corporate development beat that enjoyment out of me. AI is just the final nail in the coffin. I have no enjoyment left in coding; I firmly believe the current crop of programming languages will go in the same vein as human written assembly language did.
I don't believe the current LLM-based AI will replace most other jobs, but I think it is well suited to completely replace much of programming/IT and morph it into an unrecognizable job role.
- mrloba 25d agoIf AI replaces programming it will indirectly replace a lot of other jobs as well, just by good ol' automation
- wavemode 25d agoThat doesn't really follow. Not every job can be automated with code. And those that can, largely already have been.
- Towaway69 25d agoWhat revived me was doing visual coding using Node-RED[1] - remember Yahoo Pipes? Great fun doing stuff "visually" by connecting the rectangles with the lines! That brings me joy after 30+ years of typing at the keyboard. In the end though, it's the problem solving that makes this job fun. Minor dopamine hits when a minor thing gets fixed (or some weird bug resolves itself into a 8 bits/1 byte solution!). That's all gone when working with LLMs - it's perfect code each time ... until ... you have to understand what went wrong ... more LLMs, more Tokens, more cash burnt. But no problems understood nor solved, just prompt adjusting and virtual monkeys at virtual keyboards. Oh, well - here's to the bright future of electric creativity out of the tube. [1] https://nodered.org/ https://nodered.org/