September 2024. I’ll never write a line of syntax again. First it was Cursor now it’s Claude.
Ask HN: Last time you wrote code?
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#12A few hours ago. I am learning a new language (rust) so I disabled auto complete and AI suggestions. Otherwise AI becomes more of a distraction than a booster. But for languages I am more confident (like JS and dart), I usually don't write code and only review it. If it is a throw-away project (like I am only experimenting something or just need something for one time), I don't event look at the code and only focus o…
Interesting, I just decided (well 2 days ago) that I want to learn Rust myself. What resource are you using to learn?
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#13I'm learning my first lisp (emacs lisp), for learning a language I don't want any assistance whatsoever or it'll never stick. I'm just learning it for the pleasure of understanding it so I'm not actually trying to build something fast.
btw; Lisp is poetic and if you've never learned one, you should!
Re: Ask HN: Last time you wrote code?
#14A few hours ago. I am learning a new language (rust) so I disabled auto complete and AI suggestions. Otherwise AI becomes more of a distraction than a booster. But for languages I am more confident (like JS and dart), I usually don't write code and only review it. If it is a throw-away project (like I am only experimenting something or just need something for one time), I don't event look at the code and only focus o…
Interesting, I just decided (well 2 days ago) that I want to learn Rust myself. What resource are you using to learn?
I am using Rust By Example Book. https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/
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#16Any time the autocomplete doesn’t understand what I’m trying to accomplish, so several times per hour.
LLMs will repeat the patterns they see, and I’m trying to whip a legacy codebase into decent shape before the next phase of feature growth, so no fully generative coding for anything beyond tests and throwaways until that’s done.
And TBH, while I adore neither having to type out the nits of syntax nor having to remember the details of certain APIs, I still get far more enjoyment from working at the code level than the prompt level. So a good AI autocomplete makes for very enjoyable and productive coding.
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#17I still regularly write stuff myself to stay in practice, because I suspect as some point, some bubble will burst, and I will not have access to the quality of agentic tooling I have today .
So, today.
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#18I usually write code every day but right now I don't have anything important to do. I started writing a graphical text editor / IDE as i wanted to do some GUI stuff, which I never did. But my heart is not in it, so i just randomly write few lines here and there. I am not burnt out, just lack sufficient motivation at this time. But generally i code every day. I had a 6m break from coding 3 years ago and i definitely noticed that I forgot quite a lot of stuff. Although I was back on the horse in few days. But at least I know that the knowledge is not eternal and needs to be constantly engaged.