unknownfuture

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by unknownfuture 4mo ago
No, coding is the act of reifying all the things that actually matter--the requirements, the visual design, the system design, etc--into a form that a computer can execute. The biggest value proposition of an LLM is being able to focus on t
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by unknownfuture 4mo ago
I'm just gonna hop in and say: I get it. If I spend a weekend standing up a self-hosted media system or something, I doubt anyone would dispute that's a fun building exercise. If I do the same thing but use an LLM to build out ins
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by unknownfuture 4mo ago
Very well said. I also think reading and reviewing code is a skill that connected to but very much independent of the writing of code, and the use of coding agents requires us to be far more skilled and diligent at it. So put another way, p
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by unknownfuture 4mo ago
And I get that compulsion to boil this mess down into a simple good/bad dichotomy. I absolutely have deeply mixed feelings about these tools, the ethics associated with them, the impact on the industry, on the talent pipeline, etc. B
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by unknownfuture 4mo ago
Interesting that you think building is just coding. What do you think architects do? Or interior designers? Or civil engineers?
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by unknownfuture 4mo ago
Given the UIs I've experienced over the years, I'd dispute that assumption...
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by unknownfuture 4mo ago
> Handing over software quality to the stochastic code extruder is causing a sharp drop in the quality of software put out into the world. I genuinely don't know if that's true and I doubt you do, either. It's all feels ri