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Absolutely not. I have way more hard problems that engage me then ever. I do both human and AI coding. The former more to learn and mold my mind around a prob
by softwaredoug 10d ago
Absolutely not.
I have way more hard problems that engage me then ever.
I do both human and AI coding. The former more to learn and mold my mind around a problem. The latter when I feel I am ready to delegate to a junior dev.
I think of AI coding like how I’ve operated as a principal engineer at a company. It works well when you study the problem well enough to know precisely what you want. That often requires actual hands on technical work IMO. The coding isn’t for the machine, its not even to ship, it’s to help me think. Then I have a basis to really understand and care about the details. I can micromanage agents to do what’s expected at this point.
- softwarewright 9d agoUsing agents to micromanage agents is something I ended up doing. Part of the fun is solving puzzles where the coding agent gets stuck and me then giving it technical direction. Especially when an agent says that something cannot be done in software (I show them how it actually can be done). I am in the more motivated than ever camp.