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Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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adamddev1 wrote: post #9

There's a lot of good descriptions and observations on this article. But I don't like this language that just assumes we all use AI, we've all pulled away from the code. It all seems to be part of the collective brainwashing and psychosis that says "it's a new age now, everyone is doing it this way." > It’s less coding than it used to be, or a different kind of coding. More describing and steering and deciding, less…

You are right! Not everyone is using AI for coding. I see your point.

But I also disagree with your claim saying agentic coding is nay less of care or less engineering.

I have 13 years of industry experience and was doing hand coding with vim. But I adapted agentic coding which I believe is very empowering

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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satvikpendem wrote: post #4

I like the AI images, the style is nice and is well executed especially the mirror reflection one, it accurately, well, reflects what pet projects become. But, I disagree that they're monstrous just because they get big.

They can be monstrous cos they can take my job which means my money and identity partially

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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Post by kevinsync »

> I watch engineers pick up design so the thing looks good and feels good, not just runs. The work pulls you into the parts you used to hand to someone else. We’re all stretching wider than we trained for. Whatever the work needs, we learn it.

Even back to the mid-90's I've always approached projects like this -- soup to nuts, all the way from idea to conception to creative ideation to implementation to digital life!

I also used to assume everybody did lol, until I worked long enough professionally to watch the landscape subdivide like a fractal into what we have now.

There's a LOT of bad shit to be said about AI coding, but I also have this feeling that something about it all is rekindling that ancient one-man-band approach that can actually work if you're able to play all the instruments. Really interested to see what comes of it once the breathless hype dies down a little bit.

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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ErroneousBosh wrote: post #10

AI slop text, AI slop graphics, and a particularly obnoxious "oh well everyone's using AI now, no-one writes any more because they don't need to" tone. Absolute trash. Please can we have a filter to keep the AI slop - and all the metaslop around it, articles about the guts of LLMs - off the feed?

It's the hate language of someone who still has not learned how to use AI.

I use AI everywhere in my workflow and I spend quite a few hour writing and creating the arts.

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

#18

Post by nnehdi »

kevinsync wrote: post #13

> I watch engineers pick up design so the thing looks good and feels good, not just runs. The work pulls you into the parts you used to hand to someone else. We’re all stretching wider than we trained for. Whatever the work needs, we learn it. Even back to the mid-90's I've always approached projects like this -- soup to nuts, all the way from idea to conception to creative ideation to implementation to digital life!…

Wow, you’re speaking my mind.

I’ve been thinking the same thing. AI makes it possible for us to be generalists again. One person, or a small team of generalists, can create and build things in a more human way, with everyone putting a piece of their soul into it.

It lets us be more involved, have more impact, and not just be one tiny cog in a huge machine, working on a small piece you can barely identify with in the bigger picture.

Re: Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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Post by snovv_crash »

nnehdi wrote: post #11
adamddev1 wrote: post #9

There's a lot of good descriptions and observations on this article. But I don't like this language that just assumes we all use AI, we've all pulled away from the code. It all seems to be part of the collective brainwashing and psychosis that says "it's a new age now, everyone is doing it this way." > It’s less coding than it used to be, or a different kind of coding. More describing and steering and deciding, less…

You are right! Not everyone is using AI for coding. I see your point. But I also disagree with your claim saying agentic coding is nay less of care or less engineering. I have 13 years of industry experience and was doing hand coding with vim. But I adapted agentic coding which I believe is very empowering

Your comment is as empty as the prose from am LLM. I worry about the level of discourse LLMs train us to accept as normal. Assuming, of course, that this is even human-written.
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