AI is doing the chores while we paint.
Except to me it feels more like AI is painting while I have to do the chores
Web development is fun again
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#22honestly, with LLMs, everything is fun again. embedded dev with a billion toolchains, GPU development with each vendors bespoke API, ffmpeg with its billion parameters - if anything, you could say LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. without LLMs, we might be facing a world where 30% of the workforce is in software dev. i am keeping my eyes peeled on vibe-coding PCB layouts and schematics. a lot…
“LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization” - well said!
Finally we can get rid of those insufferable nerds. /s
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#23honestly, with LLMs, everything is fun again. embedded dev with a billion toolchains, GPU development with each vendors bespoke API, ffmpeg with its billion parameters - if anything, you could say LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. without LLMs, we might be facing a world where 30% of the workforce is in software dev. i am keeping my eyes peeled on vibe-coding PCB layouts and schematics. a lot…
I don't get it. What part of the process do you enjoy?
Do you also enjoy hiring a taskrabbit to go hiking for you, taking photos along the way?
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#24honestly, with LLMs, everything is fun again. embedded dev with a billion toolchains, GPU development with each vendors bespoke API, ffmpeg with its billion parameters - if anything, you could say LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. without LLMs, we might be facing a world where 30% of the workforce is in software dev. i am keeping my eyes peeled on vibe-coding PCB layouts and schematics. a lot…
> LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. This is fundamentally what makes them so DAMAGING to humanity. They didn't bail us out, they robbed us of it.
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#25> On the frontend, you have build pipelines, bundlers, CSS frameworks with their own toolchains, progressive web apps, Core Web Vitals, SEO, layout shifts, srcset/responsive images…
LLMs are successful in webdev because of unnecessary frameworks being piled on top of each other more in the name of job security than technical necessity.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! I’ve seen this myself, folks moving back into development after years or decades.
Only it’s a bit like me getting back into cooking because I described the dish I want to a trainee cook.
The head chefs at most restaurants delegate the majority of details of dishes to their kitchen staff, then critique and refine.
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#27honestly, with LLMs, everything is fun again. embedded dev with a billion toolchains, GPU development with each vendors bespoke API, ffmpeg with its billion parameters - if anything, you could say LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. without LLMs, we might be facing a world where 30% of the workforce is in software dev. i am keeping my eyes peeled on vibe-coding PCB layouts and schematics. a lot…
> LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. This is fundamentally what makes them so DAMAGING to humanity. They didn't bail us out, they robbed us of it.
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#28honestly, with LLMs, everything is fun again. embedded dev with a billion toolchains, GPU development with each vendors bespoke API, ffmpeg with its billion parameters - if anything, you could say LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. without LLMs, we might be facing a world where 30% of the workforce is in software dev. i am keeping my eyes peeled on vibe-coding PCB layouts and schematics. a lot…
> LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. This is fundamentally what makes them so DAMAGING to humanity. They didn't bail us out, they robbed us of it.
Specialization is for insects, as Heinlein said. We are going back to the Renaissance Man ideal and I'm all for it.
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#29When stuff was getting too complicated, I looked for ways to make things simpler. Developers have spent decades trying to figure out ways to make things simpler, less code the better, only to throw it all out the window because chatbot go brrrrrr.
It’s because business demand speed and shipping over other concerns.
We had to fight hard for proper quality controls in the face of the LLM coding assistance boom where I work. These are great tools but they have limits and can lead to poor engineering hygiene quite quickly.
It took a major issue being attributed to having too much trust in these tools before we were able to enforce better hygiene with them
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#30>>Starting a new project once felt insurmountable. Now, it feels realistic again.
Honestly, this does not give me confidence in anything else you said. If you can't spin up a new project on your own in a few minutes, you may not be equipped to deal with or debug whatever AI spins up for you.
>>When AI generates code, I know when it’s good and when it’s not. I’v seen the good and the bad, and I can iterate from there. Even with refinement and back-and-forth prompting, I’m easily 10x more productive
Minus a baseline, it's hard to tell what this means. 10x nothing is nothing. How am I supposed to know what 1x is for you, is there a 1x site I can look at to understand what 10x would mean? My overall feeling prior to reading this was "I should hire this guy", and after reading it my overwhelming thought was "eat a dick, you sociopathic self-aggrandizing tool." Moreover, if you have skill which you feel is augmented by these tools, then you may want to lean more heavily on that skill now if you think that the tool itself makes everyone capable of writing the same amazing code you do. Because it sounds like you will be unemployed soon if not already, as a casualty of the nonsense engine you're blogging about and touting.