I created my first AI-assisted pull request
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I created my first AI-assisted pull request
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Re: I created my first AI-assisted pull request
#2Yeah I mean, now you know how managers feel? :)
spend all day talking to people (except it's LLMs) and not sure if you accomplished anything, but people seem happy
The plus side is for your personal things like this you don't have to use it of course!
Re: I created my first AI-assisted pull request
#3At the end of the day, the shareholders care about delivering features, gaining customers, and making money. They don’t care how software is built.
They absolutely do care how software is built. They just don't weight the factors the same way you do.
Product companies exist to convert software into money by providing utility to users. There's really no part of the transaction that meaningfully involves how much fun you're personally having building it.
Re: I created my first AI-assisted pull request
#4When you realize that being a great "programmer", isn't about writing the most code, but getting the job done...
AI will click as another tool in the toolbox.
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Re: I created my first AI-assisted pull request
#6At the end of the day, the shareholders care about delivering features, gaining customers, and making money. They don’t care how software is built. They absolutely do care how software is built. They just don't weight the factors the same way you do. Product companies exist to convert software into money by providing utility to users. There's really no part of the transaction that meaningfully involves how much fun y…
Well they also care to a certain extent because how something is built has a direct impact on the output as well.
Re: I created my first AI-assisted pull request
#7When you realize that being a great "programmer", isn't about writing the most code, but getting the job done... AI will click as another tool in the toolbox.
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#8This is the wrong way to think about tool use.
You wanted this feature for years. You understood the problem, but the amount of time that it would have taken to properly implement and test it held you back from doing it. Obviously, anyone else who wanted this feature came to the same conclusion.
This new tool reduced the amount of time that it would take. So you used the tool. You used the tool to bring the feature into existence, checked the tests, and took enough time to ensure that it was good. You didn't lie about your contribution in the PR, and the maintainer deemed it acceptable. And now everyone has this feature!
When you eat a strawberry do you feel like an impostor for not growing it yourself?
Re: I created my first AI-assisted pull request
#9At the end of the day, the shareholders care about delivering features, gaining customers, and making money. They don’t care how software is built. They absolutely do care how software is built. They just don't weight the factors the same way you do. Product companies exist to convert software into money by providing utility to users. There's really no part of the transaction that meaningfully involves how much fun y…
Well they also care to a certain extent because how something is built has a direct impact on the output as well.
They care about outcomes. I don't know that you're going to be able to draw an especially compelling line to programmer excitement and fulfillment and any of those outcome factors, though.
Re: I created my first AI-assisted pull request
#10This is the wrong way to think about tool use. You wanted this feature for years. You understood the problem, but the amount of time that it would have taken to properly implement and test it held you back from doing it. Obviously, anyone else who wanted this feature came to the same conclusion. This new tool reduced the amount of time that it would take. So you used the tool. You used the tool to bring the feature i…
If I picked it up from someone else's garden without permission then yeah.