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>For other tinkerers, the tinkering is accomplishing an objective or building a thing Those are not tinkerers then, as there's no tinkering involved. Or there

by coldtea 18d ago

>For other tinkerers, the tinkering is accomplishing an objective or building a thing Those are not tinkerers then, as there's no tinkering involved. Or there might be in other parts (e.g. with electronics to hook up and house the code AI wrote for you, if it's something that will run on a Raspberry Pi), but not in the coding part. The question implies: "do you still enjoy nerding out and tinkering by writing code yourself, now that AI can write it". Else asking if you're demotivated from doing it "because of AI" wouldn't make sense. So I would say that "I like making stuff by having AI write the code" is still an admission of not nerding out and tinkering (regarding code) anymore.

5upplied_demand 18d ago
> Those are not tinkerers, as there's no tinkering involved. This seems closed minded view of tinkering. There are plenty of ways to tinker aside from just writing code. It could be in driving traffic to a website, selling a product, combining datasets, automating a task, etc. I personally love economics and have used AI to tinker with combing multiple datasets to create new ways of viewing economic growth at the metro level across variables.
sejje 18d ago
I don't redefine my words because someone else used them poorly in context or something. Matthias is obviously a tinkerer. The post didn't say anything about code, maybe you didn't notice that.
sejje 18d ago
This is on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544 If the guy didn't write any code, don't you still think he's a tinkerer? I do. Don't you think he's nerding out? I do. I'm using AI to mess with all kinds of things I didn't do before AI. Like working on 90s Ford trucks. If you've narrowed the scope of the question, or narrowed the definition of "tinkering" to require writing code, I'm just left scratching my head.

by coldtea 18d ago

5upplied_demand 18d ago

> Those are not tinkerers, as there's no tinkering involved. This seems closed minded view of tinkering. There are plenty of ways to tinker aside from just writing code. It could be in driving traffic to a website, selling a product, combining datasets, automating a task, etc. I personally love economics and have used AI to tinker with combing multiple datasets to create new ways of viewing economic growth at the metro level across variables.

sejje 18d ago

I don't redefine my words because someone else used them poorly in context or something. Matthias is obviously a tinkerer. The post didn't say anything about code, maybe you didn't notice that.

sejje 18d ago

This is on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544 If the guy didn't write any code, don't you still think he's a tinkerer? I do. Don't you think he's nerding out? I do. I'm using AI to mess with all kinds of things I didn't do before AI. Like working on 90s Ford trucks. If you've narrowed the scope of the question, or narrowed the definition of "tinkering" to require writing code, I'm just left scratching my head.