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AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

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Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

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Post by bluefirebrand »

codr7 wrote: post #109
a_bonobo wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the longest time, IT workers were 'protected' from Marx's alienation of labor by the rarity of your skill, but now it's coming for you/us, too. Claude Code is to programmers what textile machines were to textile workers. >In the capitalist mode of production, the generation of products (goods and services) is accomplished with an endless sequence of discrete, repetitive motions that offer the worker little psycho…

Nope, not until AI is writing high quality, maintainable software; and no one knows if that's even possible yet.

In fairness to AI, many software devs are not writing high quality, maintainable software

But in fairness to human devs, most are still writing software that is leagues better than the dog shit AI is producing right now

Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

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Post by hudon »

codr7 wrote: post #109
a_bonobo wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the longest time, IT workers were 'protected' from Marx's alienation of labor by the rarity of your skill, but now it's coming for you/us, too. Claude Code is to programmers what textile machines were to textile workers. >In the capitalist mode of production, the generation of products (goods and services) is accomplished with an endless sequence of discrete, repetitive motions that offer the worker little psycho…

Nope, not until AI is writing high quality, maintainable software; and no one knows if that's even possible yet.

What caused textile machines to replace the manual labor wasn’t the quality of their output, it was quantity. In fact, manually made clothing was of higher quality than what was machine-produced.

Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

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Post by djmips »

TrietNg wrote: post #69

I encounter a problem which is my social media usage increase. The time when you wait for the agent to write code is kinda silly :) You can not switch to do other things as it will make your focus shift away from the code. So usually I just dumb scroll for 1 minute

You're expected to run several projects in parallel with latency hiding like a human GPU. No downtime!

Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

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Post by lioeters »

Narciss wrote: post #83

Fun fact: “praf” (seen in the website domain, praf.me) in Romanian means dust. If you say “you are praf” in Romanian it means that you are f*cked, wasted, done for, etc.

The same word is "prach" in Czech: dust, powder. The "ch" sounds like "kh" (soft k?). In Czech slang prachy means cash, money.

Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

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Post by jiggunjer »

energy123 wrote: post #40
ForHackernews wrote: post #35

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Hard to tell if this is parody or not but I chuckled at the idea of replacing tedious programming with a "simple stream" of handwritten XML.

It's not parody. I'm trying to provide the LLM with what's missing, which is a theory of how the system fits into the world: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf Without this it defaults to being ignorant about the trade-offs that you care about, or the relevant assumptions you're making which you think are obvious but really aren't. The "simple stream" aspect is that each task I give to the LLM is narrowly scop…

So like: Generate a metaphor-rich essay on the fragility of digital memory in the age of infinite storage

  
    LLMs understand metaphor but may default to literal interpretations unless nudged
    Reader is tech-savvy but emotionally attuned
    We romanticize loss and impermanence; permanence is sterile
    Poetic, but not florid. Think Calvino meets cyberpunk.
  
  
  
    
      Not just data retention, but emotional proxies, identity scaffolding
      We remember too much, and thus forget how to forget
      Digital memory is a hoarder’s attic with perfect climate control
    
    
      Fuzzy, selective, narrative-driven
      Its gaps are what make it beautiful
    
    
      LLM is not just a scribe, but a co-dreamer
      Model may over-index on coherence, losing the emotional fray
    
  
  
  
    Can forgetting be designed into digital systems?
    Is nostalgia a compression algorithm?
    What does it mean to "misremember" in a world of perfect logs?
  
  
  
    Model generates a dystopia instead of a melancholic tone
    Model literalizes metaphors (e.g., "clouds forget")
    Model assumes user wants a solution, not a meditation
  
  
  
    Use metaphor as scaffolding, not decoration
    Let ambiguity breathe—don’t resolve every tension
    Favor rhythm over precision in sentence structure
  
  
  
    Prompt typed in 2 minutes, no edits
    Sleep-deprived but lucid
    To make the model feel like it’s dreaming with me

Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

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Post by lmm »

pureliquidhw wrote: post #65
willtemperley wrote: post #56

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Short-term, automated tech debt creation will yield gains. Long term the craftsperson writing excellent code will win. It is now easier than ever to write excellent code, for those that are able to choose their pace.

Given it's 2025 and companies saddled with tech debt continue to prioritize speed of delivery over quality, I doubt the craftperson will win. If anything we'll see disposable systems (or parts) and the job of an SE will become even more like a plumber, connecting prebuilt business logic to prebuilt systems libraries. When one of those fails, have AI whip up a brand new one instead of troubleshooting the existing one(…

> it's 2025 and companies saddled with tech debt continue to prioritize speed of delivery over quality

Maybe. I'm seeing the opposite - yes, the big ships take time to turn, but with the rise of ransomware and increasing privacy regulation around the world, companies are putting more and more emphasis on quality and avoiding incidents.

Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

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Post by baq »

codr7 wrote: post #109
a_bonobo wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the longest time, IT workers were 'protected' from Marx's alienation of labor by the rarity of your skill, but now it's coming for you/us, too. Claude Code is to programmers what textile machines were to textile workers. >In the capitalist mode of production, the generation of products (goods and services) is accomplished with an endless sequence of discrete, repetitive motions that offer the worker little psycho…

Nope, not until AI is writing high quality, maintainable software; and no one knows if that's even possible yet.

Why wouldn’t it be possible if meat computers can do it more or less reliably? The construction of such a machine is a matter of time; whether it’s a year or a century is anyone’s guess.

When it is eventually made, though… it’s either aligned or we’re in trouble. Job cushiness will be P2 or P3 in a world where a computer can do everything economically viable better than any human.

Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

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Post by codr7 »

baq wrote: post #119
codr7 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, not until AI is writing high quality, maintainable software; and no one knows if that's even possible yet.

Why wouldn’t it be possible if meat computers can do it more or less reliably? The construction of such a machine is a matter of time; whether it’s a year or a century is anyone’s guess. When it is eventually made, though… it’s either aligned or we’re in trouble. Job cushiness will be P2 or P3 in a world where a computer can do everything economically viable better than any human.

Speak for yourself, I'm not a computer.
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