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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 I expect "a lot of people" u
by 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.