Six months of writing code exclusively with agents
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#3> The bigger cost was the typing. Every time I wanted to build something, I could see the code in my head. I just couldn’t type it out fast enough.
Facts. For me the bigger the gap between what i saw in my head and the speed with which my fingers could physically make it a reality the more stress i would feel and some marathon coding sessions would end w my back all messed up just from the tension
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#4I also haven't written more than a couple lines of code in months, but I definitely do read the code. You have to, or at least provide lots of Claude Rules to help steer it. AI has too many bad coding practices by default. But you don't need to modify lines of code by hand, you can just tell it what to fix.
I'm predicting a Docker for AI Coding. There really is a ton of stuff you need to set up to do AI coding/vibe coding in a way that's safe, has good results, and is fast. You don't just need a dev environment, you need a whole SDLC; codified good engineering decisions, test framework, credential management, an interactive UI and notifications, guardrails, a "waterfall" of progressive design/build/test, context management, and much more. It's too much for people to put together themselves without tons of time and experimentation. Same as containers, which is why Docker came about: to let an end user do complex things in an easy way.
AI coding is like a self-driving car. Making the car move is easy; making it get you to the destination you want safely is very hard.
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#5I don't understand people that say "I no longer code" as a good thing. I think it's safe to assume that if you studied computer science or similar you like to code. If not, why did you even study that?
To me it just feels like you want to be a manager not an engineer
This is like if a plumber said. I no longer do any construction, I just tell people what to do. Then you probably aren't a builder anymore, you are a foreman or a project manager.
I think your job as an engineer is to know the codebase and how it was engineered
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#6And before LLMs he would have slapped together a twenty-line bash script and a cron job over lunch, and spent six months working on something else.
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#7The writing style really seems to rub off onto people after a while, eh.
Re: Six months of writing code exclusively with agents
#8I don't understand people that say "I no longer code" as a good thing. I think it's safe to assume that if you studied computer science or similar you like to code. If not, why did you even study that? To me it just feels like you want to be a manager not an engineer This is like if a plumber said. I no longer do any construction, I just tell people what to do. Then you probably aren't a builder anymore, you are a fo…
Do architects have to like laying bricks?
Re: Six months of writing code exclusively with agents
#9I don't understand people that say "I no longer code" as a good thing. I think it's safe to assume that if you studied computer science or similar you like to code. If not, why did you even study that? To me it just feels like you want to be a manager not an engineer This is like if a plumber said. I no longer do any construction, I just tell people what to do. Then you probably aren't a builder anymore, you are a fo…
Do architects have to like laying bricks?
Some of us like the details. Bricklayers are not subhuman! You architect if you want, or manage which is what agentic seems like to me, I'm sticking to coding until I can't any more (or get properly sick of it all, which is likely to come first given everything is getting both more and more remote and more drowned in AI and I want neither) then I'm doing something completely different because I don't want to manage (people or agents).
Re: Six months of writing code exclusively with agents
#10I don't understand people that say "I no longer code" as a good thing. I think it's safe to assume that if you studied computer science or similar you like to code. If not, why did you even study that? To me it just feels like you want to be a manager not an engineer This is like if a plumber said. I no longer do any construction, I just tell people what to do. Then you probably aren't a builder anymore, you are a fo…
Do architects have to like laying bricks?
Careful, LEGO style bricks were initially a product intended for professional architects. =3