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I have some lines of code I’ve written that I quite cherish. I’ve posted about such excerpts many times online. So we both like code quite a bit. I think you’r

I have some lines of code I’ve written that I quite cherish. I’ve posted about such excerpts many times online. So we both like code quite a bit. I think you’re letting your pride get the best of you. Writing software should not be about ego. It’s about making something helpful, or something beautiful, or at the very least financially useful. Interacting with software through a natural language interface does not mandate you are creating junk. I won’t tell you how to use the tool. But I am sure if you were sufficiently motivated you’d learn how to make it work for you.

Martin_Silenus 19d ago
It didn't click, did it? You're a kind person, you know, but I'm not. I'm a misanthropic megalomaniac guy. > I think you’re letting your pride get the best of you. Writing software should not be about ego. It’s about making something helpful, or something beautiful The things I'm the proudest of are, by far, the most useless and unhelpful ones. The ones I did for myself. The ones that made me think "wow, now I rock!" and the machine spit its guts crying "mummy help me". That's what the demoscene (to name one subculture) was all about. That's what hacking is all about in the first place. > or at the very least financially useful These have always been the ones I'm the most ashamed about. These were the things I would not have done for myself, but for other people. The ones that kept me living, not the ones that made me feel alive. What did you think I was talking about? > But I am sure if you were sufficiently motivated you’d learn how to make it work for you. I'm motivated to code. I'm not an architect, a QA tester, or whatever, I'm a coder. Now, wanna know what kind of person I am and how I made LLMs work for me long before you suggest it here? Read that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072319#48073350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072319#48073350 Then, come back and we can talk. I WILL NOT ASK A MACHINE SOMETHING I LOVE TO DO MYSELF, WHICH I TAKE PLEASURE FROM. If that looks like an idiotic and stubborn stance to you, FINE.
- teaearlgraycold 18d ago
  Well I definitely don’t like coding as much as you do. And don’t give up your hobbies to appease anyone, least of all me.

Martin_Silenus 19d ago

It didn't click, did it? You're a kind person, you know, but I'm not. I'm a misanthropic megalomaniac guy. > I think you’re letting your pride get the best of you. Writing software should not be about ego. It’s about making something helpful, or something beautiful The things I'm the proudest of are, by far, the most useless and unhelpful ones. The ones I did for myself. The ones that made me think "wow, now I rock!" and the machine spit its guts crying "mummy help me". That's what the demoscene (to name one subculture) was all about. That's what hacking is all about in the first place. > or at the very least financially useful These have always been the ones I'm the most ashamed about. These were the things I would not have done for myself, but for other people. The ones that kept me living, not the ones that made me feel alive. What did you think I was talking about? > But I am sure if you were sufficiently motivated you’d learn how to make it work for you. I'm motivated to code. I'm not an architect, a QA tester, or whatever, I'm a coder. Now, wanna know what kind of person I am and how I made LLMs work for me long before you suggest it here? Read that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072319#48073350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072319#48073350 Then, come back and we can talk. I WILL NOT ASK A MACHINE SOMETHING I LOVE TO DO MYSELF, WHICH I TAKE PLEASURE FROM. If that looks like an idiotic and stubborn stance to you, FINE.

teaearlgraycold 18d ago
Well I definitely don’t like coding as much as you do. And don’t give up your hobbies to appease anyone, least of all me.