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a lot of people don't understand that the joy of making something is not coding but actually being able to build anything I want. AI just made it 50x better, as
by _zoltan_ 20d ago
a lot of people don't understand that the joy of making something is not coding but actually being able to build anything I want. AI just made it 50x better, as exactly as you said, we don't need to deal with the useless junk (what's the API syntax? what's the library syntax? oh it changed in the last 3 versions, let me look up the new API, this and that...).
it's great.
- omnicognate 20d ago> a lot of people don't understand that the joy of making something is not coding but actually being able to build anything I want I expect "a lot of people" understand perfectly well that that's where the joy comes from for you. Do you not understand that other people have different motivations?
- _zoltan_ 20d agocoding for the sake of coding is, well, dumb.
- stavros 20d agoIs painting for the sake of painting dumb too?
- _zoltan_ 20d agothat's a dumb comparison. are you equating writing code to painting like Michaelangelo?
- SoftTalker 20d agoDid Michaelangelo paint his works himself, or did he buy a bunch of slaves and give them some prompting?
- _zoltan_ 20d agoEh, take your fav painter then.
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- 2muchcoffeeman 20d agoThe number of down votes the parent comment has seems to me like a litmus test of people who will use AI and those that are just critical of it. I have my reservations about AI but so far I’ve found ways to make me faster. So I’ll continue to use it but make sure to review my usage regularly.
- omnicognate 20d agoThe number of downvotes reflects the fact that people don't consider just calling something "dumb" a worthwhile contribution to the discussion.
- ozim 20d agoCrafting code in your preferred language in a way that it is easily understood by others or fulfills some other constraints while doing whatever algorithm requires can be as fulfilling as writing poetry. I can write „you live, you die, get over with it, life is hard, love hurts” - it basically encodes all wisdom of countless poems, books. Yet I have seen many people getting that idea better when the knowledge of this simple truth is in a form of a story. Conversely, if you write an algorithm using better structure, better data structures it makes a lot of difference.